Memorials

Fiesole Duomo 09c tomb of Bishop Bindo Ferrucci a

Situated In

Rosselli Number	9.0
Memorial Type
Status	frn
Current Repository	frn
Primary Installation	floor
Secondary Installation	no additional components
Tomb Form	rectangular
Liturgical Orientation	frn
Documented Types	lastrone
Component Parts	slab
Decorative Elements
Material	marble
Database ID	32008

Dates

1589 b

renovation

Inscriptions (2 total)

2557	Hoc iacet in tumulo Bindus Ferruccia Proles / Qui in terris clarus sic fuit ille suis: / Proli dolor, et secum Pietas, Probitasq: recumbunt / Tot bona quare uno funere Mors rapuit / Antistes Fesulis fuit, Officiumq: per annos / bis senos egit moribus eximijs / Baptistę Matthias nunc Ferruccius ipse / Hunc tumulum instaurat, Posteris, atque sibi. / 15 Kal. Apłis MDLXXXIX	In this tomb lies Bindo, offspring of the Ferrucci, who had such renown on earth among his kin, and whose death brought such grief to his family. With him lie buried Piety and Probity. Why did Death carry off so many virtues in a single funeral? He was Bishop of Fiesole, and served for twice six years with exemplary character. Now Matteo di Battista Ferrucci restores this monument for his descendants and for himself on the fifteenth day before the Kalends of April, 1589 [March 18].
2556	Rev:mo D. Bindo Ferruccio Fesularum episcopo prestantissimo. Leonardus, et Bartholomeus Fratres, et Joannes filius Alexandri Francisci, qui Bindi nepos Fesulani et Florentinj cives sep. hoc cum lacrjmis posuere A. D. MCCCCXII.	For the most reverend lord Bindo Ferrucci, most excellent bishop of Fiesole. Leonardo and Bartolomeo brothers, and Giovanni son of Alessandro di Francesco, who is a nephew of Bindo, Fiesolan and Florentine citizens, placed this tomb with tears in the year of the Lord 1412.

Individuals (3 total)

Guidotti, Bindo (monsignor) di Bindone di Guidotto (Ferrucci, vescovo di Fiesole) c	August 31st, 1421
Ferrucci, Giovan Battista di Francesco di Giovanni di Taddeo di Simone (detto Battista del Tadda)	1589	d
Guidotti, Bindo (monsignor) di Bindone di Guidotto (Ferrucci, vescovo di Fiesole)	1589 to 1870s

Groups (1 total)

Ferrucci

1589 to 1870s

Related Memorials (1 total)

Fiesole Duomo 09a piccolo Altare de Ferrucci

Sources (2 total)

ASF, Manoscritti, 625, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy)	pp. 1411, no. 9
S. Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, autograph	pp. 1589, no. 9

Notes

[a] Though the tomb carries an inscription indicating that the brothers and nephew of the bishop installed the tomb in 1412, this seems to have been a fantasy (or misunderstanding of an older tomb inscription) by the patron Battista Mattia Ferrucci, who renovated the tomb in 1589. The stone's first inscription claims that Leonardo and Bartolomeo, and their nephew Giovanni di Sandro di Francesco placed the tomb with great sorrow in 1412. However, the bishop did not die until 1421. Moreover, it has been shown by Carlo Strozzi and Luigi Passerini, and later confirmed by Vanna Arrighi, that Bishop Bindo was in fact the son of Bindone di Guidotto, whose family came to be known as the Rustichelli or Guidotti. Suspicions about the lineage of Battista Mattia Ferrucci had already been raised by Stefano Rosselli in his description of the tomb (p. 1589), where he noted that Bindo was of the Guidotti family and that the Ferrucci of Fiesole had adopted the bishop as a kinsman and the arms of the Ferrucci of Florence ("usurped," in his words). According to Passerini (1853, p. 629) Pierantonio dell'Ancisa (ASFi, Ancisa, HH, fol. 316) noted that the family of Fiesolan artists called Ferrucci took their name and coat of arms from the Florentine lineage from the Drago district of Santo Spirito.

For a descriptive family tree of the Florentine Ferrucci, see Passerini's notes in C. Monzani, and Luigi Passerini. “Sulla vita di Francesco Ferrucci scritta da Filippo Sassetti e sulle lttere del Ferrucci al Magistrato dei dieci di Firenze.” Archivio Storico Italiano 4, no. 2 (1853): 425–66, esp. 459–66. For additional notes on the various families in Fiesole that also used the surname Ferrucci, see Passerini's critical review of a Ferrucci family tree published in 1853, in which he discusses not only the lineage of the bishop but also that of the family of artists. Luigi Passerini, Review of Ferrucci di Firenze e Fiesole. Quattro tavole storiche ed una monumentale intagliata in rame, by Anonimo. Appendice all’Archivio storico italiano 9 (1853): 626–32, esp. p. 628 where Passerini absolves Battista of deliberate fabrication explaining that he was acting on family lore that he descended from the Guidotti, and then made the assumption that the bishop was an ancestor. Whether Battista's action was through malicious intent to show nobility and importance or honest faith in family tradition is difficult to determine. But it is certain that he commissioned a new slab with inscription and coat of arms in 1589.
[b] Note that while this inscription carries the date 1412, it was likely carved (or re-carved) in 1589 when the tomb was refurbished by Battista Mattia Ferrucci. In addition to mistaking the year of the bishop's death (he died in August 1421), the named patrons are a confusion of unrelated men who used the surname Ferrucci.
[c] According to Vanna Arrighi, Bishop Bindo Rustichelli (Guidotti or Ferrucci) was buried in the cathedral in August 1421, what is unclear is whether he was placed in the grave refurbished in 1589 by Battista Mattia Ferrucci, who believed himself to be one of Bindo's descendants.
[d] The Battista Mattia Ferrucci named on the tombstone may in fact be the sculptor otherwise known as Giovan Battista Ferrucci del Tadda, which suggests that he also made the stone himself.