Rosso appoints as his procurator the Florentine Giovanni Nicola Beccario (or del Becchaio; see DOC.11). This would be the same attorney he appointed a year earlier in Borgo Sansepolcro to handle his affairs in Florence and elsewhere, and the same would seem to apply here. The document mentions, among other causes in need of an attorney’s services, the possibility of injury by slander.

Florence, State Archives, Notarile Antecosimiano, 13112, ex-M217, notary Conte Marsuppini, 1528-1533, fol. 77 recto.

23 februarii 1528 (=1529 modern style)

Eisdem anno, indictione et pontificatu, die vero 23 mensis februarii, in domo mei notarii infrascripti, presentibus ibi Niccolao Pauli et Mario Antonii Iacobi muratoris, testibus etc.

Magister Rubeus Iacopi Gasparis, pictor florentinus, non revocando etc., omni meliori modo etc., fecit, constituit etc. suum verum et legiptimum procuratorem etc. spectabilem vizum Iohannem Nicholai beccarium, civem florentinum, lict absentem etc., generaliter in ominibus causis, litibus etc., tam motis quam in posterum movendis coram quocumque indice etc., ad agendum, causandum, defendendum et que sub verbis agendum et causandum comprehenduntur etc., et ad iurandum de calumnia etc.  Item ad comparendum coram quocumque magistratu Magnifice et excelse Reipublica florentine, ad respondendum quibuscumque petitionibus seu protestationibus contra ipsum constituentem, tam faictis quam fiendis etc.  Item ad substituendum etc.  Et generaliter etc.  Dans etc. Promictens etc.  Obligans etc.  Renumptians etc.  Relevans etc.  Rogans etc.¹