responsible for new memorial or its enhancement/renovation
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1353 to 1354
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June 25th, 1354
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Getty ID: 300258972
by August 28th, 1394
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presumed role based on incomplete evidence; for burials, we know the burial is in this church, we think it is in this tomb; for patronage and other relationships, there is evidence to suggest the connection, but it has not been confirmed
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Getty ID: 300258972
by August 28th, 1394
surmised
presumed role based on incomplete evidence; for burials, we know the burial is in this church, we think it is in this tomb; for patronage and other relationships, there is evidence to suggest the connection, but it has not been confirmed
person who receives rights to and responsibility for a memorial through inheritance
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by August 28th, 1394
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[a] Maestro Benvenuto medico left 150 florins to found a chapel dedicated to Saints John the Baptist and Benedict, the patron saint of Florence and father of European monasticism respectively.
[b] The monastery purchased land from Cantino and Alberto Alfani in July 1353, on which they built the new chapter room and chapels along the cloister's north side, including the "Cappella di Sancto Benedetto." See Bent, 1993, p.607, doc. 1. The Registro Nuovo reports that the chapel was completed in the first half of 1354, when its first mass was celebrated on June 25th. Ibid., 1993, p. 624, doc. 13.
[c] Stefano Rosselli reports several chapels destroyed when the new sacristy was built that were recorded in a sepoltuario dated 1580.
[d] Maestro Benvenuto died on September 26th, 1348 and his testament, drawn up by ser Nello Ghetti, would have been completed before that date. He bequeathed 150 gold florins for the construction of the chapel. The chapel was not completed, however, until 1354.
[e] The monks referred to maestro Benvenuto medico as their dear friend and benefactor–"nostro caro amico e benefattore" (see Bent, 1993, p. 624, doc. 13). In the history of the convent recorded in the Registro Nuovo (Bent, p. 607, doc. 1), the patron is named as Maestro Benvenuto di Ser Jacopo, but elsewhere in the same document he is called maestro Benvenuto or maestro Benvenuto medico. (Ibid., 624, doc. 13; 731, doc. 91). Given that the arms cited by Stefano Rosselli for this chapel are those of the del Bianco family, this must be the doctor Magister Benvenutus medicus fil. magistri Bianchi magistri Nuti populi S. Petri Majoris, referenced in the notarial papers of ser Salvi Dini in 1345, pace Tigler (138n71) who follows the Registro Nuovo in its usage of ser Jacoppo as a patronym. Maestro Benvenuto is credited as the pater familias of the del Bianco family in the Priorista Mariani.
[f] Salvestro may have been responsible for executing his father's will, which left 150 gold florins to construct a chapel in honor of saints John the Baptist and Benedict. In his own testament, Salvestro provided 50 gold florins each year for the chapel's endowment and an annual pietanza for the monks. (Bent 1993, p. 713, no. 91)
[g] Though his brother Salvestro would maintain rights to the chapel and endow it in the early 1390s, it is likely that Giovanni also had rights to the chapel, which had been endowed by their father in 1348.
[h] Salvestro del maestro Benvenuto's bequest is recorded in the Registro Nuovo, compiled in 1402, and he was dead by late April 1394 when he was drawn for the priorate. (Priorista Mariani, fol. 1310; Bent 1993, 713, doc. 91)
[i] Antonio's father, who made an annual bequest of 60ff. was dead by late April 1394 when he was drawn for the Sixteen.
[j] Bartolomeo's father, who made an annual bequest of 60ff. was dead by late April 1394 when he was drawn for the Sixteen.
[k] Bianco's father, who made an annual bequest to S. Maria degli Angeli of 60ff. was dead by late April 1394 when he was drawn for the Sixteen.
[l] The chapel held its first mass on June 25th, 1354 and was documented in the 1580 sepoltuario, but it was no longer visible when Stefano Rosselli compiled his sepoltuario in the 1650s.
[m] Stefano Rosselli describes a coat of arms formerly in a chapel near the sacristy with a band carrying a small cross between two fleur-de-lis and an Angevin label in its chief. These can be identified as belonging to the doctor Benvenuto medico who endowed the chapel of San Benedetto through his 1348 testament.
