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Benedetta de' Medici legal document, ca. 1550.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 749 Folder 35
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Medici, Benedetta de'.
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Dowry--Italy.
- Dowry.
- Marriage--Italy--Florence.
- Marriage.
- Italy--Florence.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- Legal documents.
- Manuscripts, Italian.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (2 leaves)
- Contained In:
- House of Medici Papers. Folder 35
- Place of Publication:
- ca. 1550.
- Language Note:
- In Italian.
- Biography/History:
- Wife of Carlo di Bernardo de' Medici and daughter of Francesco di Vieri da Camerata.
- Summary:
- Legal document (likely a copy) containing a preliminary form of contract, drafted by the notary Alberto dalle Pomaranci for the marriage of Benedetta da Camerata and Carlo de' Medici, in which the groom agreed to pay the bride's father, Francesco di Vieri da Camerata, a substantial sum of money upon the marriage. Information on the dowry to be paid by the bride's father is also present. The document is not dated, but was likely written in the second half of the 16th century.
- OCLC:
- 720623762
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