DOC.7b Florence, October 2, 1522

Rosso rents a house in the “Via Nuova dal Canto a Monteloro” for one year.

Florence, State Archives, Notarile antecosimiano, ex-F501 (Francesco Domenico da Catignano, 1520-1524), fol. 272 recto.

 

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Item postea, dictis anno [1522], iditione, et die IIa Octobris.  Actum Florentie et in populo Sancti Laurentii, presentibus testibus etc.  Paulo Betti di Bramantibus et Niccolao Taddei de Ginoris, civibus florentinis.  Angelus olim Nofri alterius Nofri, calzaiuolus populi Sancti Petri Maioris de Florentia, omni modo etc. dedit et locavit etc.  Rossio [sic] olim Iacobi Guasparri, pi[c]tori populi predicti, presenti etc. unam domum cum terreno et curia et suis pertinentiis, positam Florentie et in via dicta Via Nuova dal Canto a Monteloro, cui a primo via, a secundo Iacobi del Zacheria, a III societatis Peregrini de Florentia, a III Capelle Sancti Niccolai della via de’Bardi, infra predictos confines etc. pro tempore anni unius proximi futuri initiandi dicta die, pro pensione florenorum X largorum de auro in auro, solvendorum de sex mensibus in sex menses, pro rata.  Que bona dictus locator proximit etc. defendere etc. cum pacto quod possit dictus conductor dicta bona alteri locare etc.  Et e converso dictus conductor proximit etc. pensionem solvere et pro alio non confiteri etc. et uti arbitrio boni viri etc. et in fine temporis relaxare etc. eo modo et forma qua est ad presens, si qua mutasset etc. et potius meliorata etc.  Et que omnia etc. proximit atendere etc. pena dupli etc. que etc. qua etc.  Pro quibus etc. obligaverunt etc. Renuntiaverunt etc. guarantigia etc.1


1 From Franklin, 1992, 184, 197, Doc. 5; and 1994, 85, 114, 304-305, Appendix D, DOCUMENT 5; unchecked.  Franklin pointed out that the location of this house is where the present Borgo Pinti crosses Borgo degli Alfani; the same corner is crossed by the Via dei Pilastri.  On this site, also called the Canto di Candeli as the location of the church of S. Maria dei Candeli, see Bigazzi, Francesco, Iscrizioni e memorie della città di Firenze, Bologna, 1886 [reprint 1968], 41, 301-302, 387; and Costamagna, 1992, 12-13.  The house would have been on whatever street was the Via Nuova in 1522.  Although Franklin knew the location of this site at the Canto a Monteloro, he referred to it as near to the church of S. Lorenzo.  It is actually some distance behind the duomo, not too far from S. Pier Maggiore, the parish of the man from whom Rosso was renting the house and Rosso’s parish at the time the contract was made in the parish of S. Lorenzo.