Memorials

S. Croce cloister 003c tomb of Andrea Pazzi and his descendants

Situated In

friary of S. Croce -- primo chiostro a mezzogiorno

Rosselli Number	3.0
Memorial Type
Status	lost
Current Repository	na
Primary Installation	floor
Secondary Installation	unk
Tomb Form	unk
Liturgical Orientation	unk
Component Parts	grave
Database ID	32140

Dates

circa 1443 (date is approximate)
circa 1478 (date is approximate) to circa 1481 (date is approximate) a	destroyed

Individuals (5 total)

Pazzi, Andrea (messer) di M. Guglielmo di Guidotto di Giano di Ubertino	circa 1429 (date is approximate) to October 19th, 1445	b
Pazzi, Andrea (messer) di M. Guglielmo di Guidotto di Giano di Ubertino	October 20th, 1445	c
Pazzi, Antonio di M. Andrea di M. Guglielmo di Guidotto di Giano	September 27th, 1451
Pazzi, Piero di M. Andrea di M. Guglielmo di Guidotto di Giano	1465
Pazzi, Jacopo di M. Andrea di M. Guglielmo di Guidotto di Giano	April 28th, 1478 to May 15th, 1478	d

Groups (1 total)

Pazzi

circa 1443 (date is approximate) to circa 1481 (date is approximate)

Related Memorials (2 total)

S. Croce cloister 003a Capitolo de' Pazzi	circa 1443 (date is approximate) to circa 1481 (date is approximate)
S. Croce cloister 003b cappella de' Pazzi	circa 1443 (date is approximate) to circa 1481 (date is approximate)

Notes

[a] The widow of Piero d'Andrea Peruzzi noted in her testament dated 13 October 1481 that the chapter house "was once called the capitolo de Pazzi," indicating that the friars had disassociated the chapel and its tomb from the family by then. See Howard Saalman, Filippo Brunelleschi: The Buildings. Penn State Press, 1993, pp. 234.
[b] Though destroyed after the 1478 Pazzi Conspiracy, a family tomb was part of the original commission for the Pazzi-sponsored chapter room and accompanying chapel.
[c] While Saalman may be right that Andrea was first buried in the transept tomb of Pazzino Pazzi, it is nevertheless possible, and even likely, that he was buried in his chosen position from the start, even if his chapel's construction had not progressed much. Clues to this interpretation may be found in the testament of his son Antonio, drawn up in 1451, in which he requested burial in the tomb "ordered and being assembled for the burial of the body of his deceased father" (in sepulcro ordinato et compilando pro sepultura corporis che [sic] olim domini Andrea [sic] patris sui). While Saalman accepted Antonio's burial in the chapel as possible, the text of his 1451 testament suggests that his father's grave had already been established and that his father had been buried in it, even as its monument was not yet complete.

Saalman also suggested that the burial of Antonio's brother Piero in 1465 was "probably" in the chapel, given that in 1464 their brother Jacopo had requested burial in the chapter house built by his father in his own testament. Jacopo would not die, however, until his execution on 28 April 1478 after the failed Pazzi Conspiracy. He is known to have been buried in the chapel in accordance with his testamentary wishes, but his corpse was disinterred soon thereafter on 15 May and reburied along the walls of the city outside the Porta alla Croce, before being exhumed again two days later and thrown into the Arno River.

See Howard Saalman, Filippo Brunelleschi: The Buildings (Penn State Press, 1993), 233–34.

We thank Emma Iadanza for drawing our attention to this reference and for generously discussing her ongoing research into the chapel and the broader context of Pazzi family patronage.
[d] After his execution for his role in the Pazzi conspiracy, Jacopo was buried in his family tomb only to be disinterred on May 15th for reburial along the city walls outside the Porta alla Croce. He was exhumed again on May 17th and after the desecration of his corpse was thrown into the Arno river.