ITALY – PIEVE DI SAN MINIATO DI RUBBIANA.
Petition to Pope Clement VII, in Latin, on paper, 30 lines in a small Italian notarial hand, lower margin folded upwards and sealed with red wax and an impression of a seal bearing the keys of Saint Peter; creased where folded, a few tiny holes resulting from ink erosion, but in excellent condition. 273 x 284 mm
Rome, St. Peter’s, 10 June in the pope’s eighth year, i.e. 1531.
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Petition to Pope Clement VII, in Latin, on paper, 30 lines in a small Italian notarial hand, lower margin folded upwards and sealed with red wax and an impression of a seal bearing the keys of Saint Peter; creased where folded, a few tiny holes resulting from ink erosion, but in excellent condition. 273 x 284 mm
The petition explains that the parish of San Miniato in the Valle Rubbiana, in the diocese of Fiesole and in the lay patronage of the Buondelmonti family of Florence, is vacant following the death of the organist Mariotto di Michele Giovanni. The patrons, or the majority of them, or their duly appointed representatives, have chosen Filippo di Benedetto Buondelmonti but, as he is only in his nineteenth year and as the Ordinary doubts the validity of this, the petition requests the pope’s approval in order that he receive the income from this benefice. The petition is duly granted by Giovanni Battista, Bishop of Caserta (i.e. Giambattista Boncianni, bishop 1514–1532). The petition further seeks approval for the union of the parish of San Miniato with that of Santa Maria. The bishop of Caserta again grants this wish.
Provenance: from the collection of Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930–2017), historian of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance.
