Memorials

S. Francesco 01b sepoltura di Castello Quaratesi

Situated In

convento Monte alle Croci -- chiesa di S. Salvatore al Monte

Rosselli Number	1.0
Memorial Type
Status	extant
Current Repository	in situ
Primary Installation	floor
Secondary Installation	no additional components
Tomb Form	rectangular
Liturgical Orientation	frn
Documented Types	sepoltura
Component Parts	slab
Decorative Elements	a
Color	white green yellow red
Material	green marble a light or dark green massive serpentinite, commonly with veinlets of calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate. It is capable of being polished and is commercially considered a marble; it is also considered to be among the highest-quality serpentinites. Alternate Names: verde antico; verd antique Getty ID: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300171549
Database ID	31598

Dates

1510 b
1758 c	inscription

Inscriptions (1 total)

2235

CASTELLVS QVARATESIVS /
NOBILITATIS ET RELIGIONIS /
EGREGIĘ CIVIS FLORENTINVS /
SALVATORI DEO TEMPLVM ET
B. FRANCISCO CENOBIVM /
HOC EX RE SVA ĘDIFICAVIT /
ANNO SALVTIS NRE MCCCCL.

EIDEM OB FIDEM IN MERCATV /
RA ET IN REPVBBLICA PROBITATEM /
GRATA FLORENTINĘ CIVITATIS /
MERCATORVM CASIMALĘ /
VNIVERSITATIS HĘRES BENE /
DE SE MERITO MONVM /
POS ANNO SALVT MDX /

Castello Quaratesi, Florentine citizen of noble birth and singular reverence, built this church for God the Savior and the convent for Blessed Francis out of his property in the year of our salvation 1450.

The same for faith in commerce and honesty in the Republic. The grateful heir, the Calimala Guild of Mercants of the city of Florence, set up the monument deservedly in the year of Salvation 1510.

Individuals (2 total)

Quaratesi, Castello di Piero di Castello		circa 1468 (date is approximate)
Quaratesi, Castello di Piero di Castello		1510 to present	d

Groups (2 total)

Arte dei Calimala		1510
Quaratesi		1510 to present

Related Memorials (1 total)

S. Francesco 01a Cappella Maggiore de Quaratesi

1510

Sources (4 total)

Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali	rec. 0900298580, 0900442361
ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy)	pp. 236, no. 1
ASF, Manoscritti, 249, Priorista Mariani II	fol. 469v
ASF, Manoscritti, 628, Sepoltuari da Francesco della Foresta	pp. 865, no. 1

Notes

[a] Stefano Rosselli noted that the inscription was partly ruined by time.
[b] The Calimala guild, which Castello Quaratesi had left in charge of his foundation of San Francesco al Monte, dedicated a tomb to him almost half a century after his death.
[c] Senator Giovanni Battista di Carlo Quaratesi added a second inscription indicating that he had taken over the expenses of the church.
[d] Castello left provisions in his will to complete the church of San Francesco and his tomb. It seems that there was quite a delay by his guild to undertake and complete the work, for the tomb carries the date 1510 while he had died by the end of March 1468.