Alessio Baldovinetti, Graffione and Finiguerra

Abstract

Alessio Baldovinetti kept a diary and many events from his life are recorded in this book, which has been published several times ⁽¹⁾, but we owe the knowledge of the date of his birth to a discovery made by Prof. Londi ⁽²⁾. He was horn in 1425 and not on the 14^th October 1427 as has been thought for many years. We do not know very much about his private life. In 1470 he was not yet married and did not possess any property; at this time he rented a house in the Canto dei Gori in the S. Lorenzo quarter of the town. In a cadastral declaration of 148o he gives his age as sixty —he was really only fifty-five — that of his wife Monna Dania — Milanesi erroneously calls her Diana — as forty-five and that of the servant Mea as thirteen. ⁽³⁾. He is still living in the Canto dei Gori but he now owns two shops with dwelling houses above which he lets (4); he was given these buildings in payment for some restoration he carried out on the mosaics of the baptistery of Florence. Later we learn that he has become the proprietor of three pieces of ground.

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