"Raccolta di varie notizie e negotii intorno al Governo di Siena"
Description
Organizational Criteria
Bound volume numbered in pencil. Volume numbered by document e not by folio.
Condition
Binding loose; pages in fairly good condition throughout, although some loose from binding.
Bound
Yes
Folios Numbered
No (623)
Alphabetical Index
No
Languages
Italian, Latin,
Some Documents in Cipher
No
Cipher Notes
None.
Correspondents
From
Mainly Siena and small towns near Siena. Many documents are not letters; many letters are without sender's place, but in general are related to Siena.
To
Mainly Florence and the Grandukes. But some letters are directed to Siena. Many documents are not letters; many letters are without recipient's place.
Context
Volume made up of miscellaneous material, with very little correspondence, relating to the government of Siena and the subject territories which became a part of the Medici Duchy. Transcription of the privileges awarded by Emperor Charles IV to the Studio Pubblico of Siena in 1357. Re-ordering of properties in the Maremma region and administration of the pasture/ livestock [Paschi] investments. Note also character sketches [probably Agnolo Niccolini's] of Sienese individuals nominated to offices in the local government- short, incisive and revealing. Reconstruction of the history of the ownership of Port'Ercole from 1450-1539 [folio 18]. Faculty role listing for the re-established Studio of Siena [fo. 27]. Various documents report the control by the hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena of properties and hospitals elsewhere in central Italy [e.g. Todi, Acquapendente ]. Transcription of documentation pertaining to the silver mines at Montisi, from 1252 [doc. 37]. Renewal of special pasture rights for Flaminio Tondi at the Castello di Ravi in Maremma [fol. 168].
