DOC.12a Arezzo, March 25, 1529

Rosso is elected to the membership of the confraternity of S. Maria delle Lagrime (SS. Annunziata), Arezzo.

Florence, State Archives, 11784, ex-L171, Michelangiolo Lippi, 1525-1532, fols. 339^v-300^r.

Die 25 mensis Martii [1529]

Supradicti homines [societatis Sante Maria Annumptiate de Arretio] ut supra congregati in sufficienti numero in eorum solita residentia, servatis servandis, acceptaverunt in socios societatis Sancte Marie Allacrimarum predicte, com infrascriptis partitis et cum obligationibus et clausolis contentis in capitulis et reformationibus dicte societatis, videlicet: Dominum Bartolomeum Berardi de Berardis f. 32 n. 6.1./Magistrum Rubertum Florentinum dictum et/vocatum Rubeum pictorem f. 30 n. 6.3./Leonardum Luce de Rosellis f. 28 n. 6.5/ Ludovicus Ieronimi de Albergottis f. 33n.-./Qui homines promiserunt etc. obligaverunt se ad omnia ea ad que tenentur vigore capitulorum dicte societatis, omni melior modo etc.¹

A payment for garments and wax for the initiation ceremony appears in the ledger entries of 29 November 1528 – 1 December 1530 that also includes payments for the S. Maria delle Lagrime project (see Preface to D.31-34).

¹ Transcribed, unchecked, from Franklin, 1994, 235, 314, Appendix H, DOCUMENT 9, 316, and 293, n. 44, to see also Florence, State Archives, Comp.RS, Arezzo, A188, vol. 2202/1, Ruolo dei Fratelli, 1330-1680, fol. 57^r, under 1529, and indicating that Rosso’s name also appears on a list of new members in Florence, State Archives, Comp.RS, Arezzo, A188, vol. 2202/2, Libro di Partiti e Ricordi, 1491-1584, fol 66^v.