Vincenzo Foppa of Brescia, founder of the Lombard school, his life ...

294 VINCENZO FOPPA
potere acquistare cosi come citadino de Pavia in Pavia, avixando la Magnificentia
Vostra che io haveria fato fare la littera da quelli de Provixione como citadino. Ma el
me costaria dieci fiorini et quelli dinari me bixognieno in altro. Unde ho havuto conseglio
che mediante la Magnificentia Vostra haveria littere da la Signoria de Madona de
potere acquistare et uxare li statuti et decreti segondo li boni citadini de Pavia,
perche piu adaxio me faro fare citadino. Non altro al presente, me ricomando sempre
a la Magnificentia Vostra. Ex Papia, die xxii lunii, 1467. Vester fidelissimus Servitor
in omnibus Vincentius de Fopa cum recomendatione.
I
Arch, di St. Mil., Autografi, Pittori, V. Foppa.
Mcmorie c Documeftti per la Storia di Pavia, 1898, fasc. iv-v, p. 96.
Chap. Ill, p. 73.
Illustrious Messer Pigello. I am sending to you Bartolomeo my brother-in-law.
beg that your Excellency will deign to procure for me a letter from the Duchess which
will enable me to acquire property at Pavia as though I were a citizen. I would inform
your Excellency at the same time that I might have obtained such a letter from the
Council of Pavia, but it would have cost me 10 florins, which money I require for other
things. Therefore I was advised to apply to your Excellency in order that 1 might
receive letters from her Highness the Duchess enabling me now to acquire property
and to benefit by the statutes and ordinances enjoyed by good citizens of Pavia and
later on I shall cause myself to be made a citizen. No more for the present. I commend
myself always to your Excellency. From Pavia, the xxii day of June, 1467.
Your faithful servant in all things,
Vincentius de Fopa.
13. Letters Patent of Bianca Maria, Duchess of Milan, authorizing Vincenzo Foppa
to acquire real estate in Pavian territory as freely as if he were a true born citizen of
Pavia.
June 27,
1467, Milan.
Ducissa Mediolani, etc. Papie Anglerieque comitissa ac Janue et Cremone domina.
Volentes nostra complecti humanitate dilectum nostrum Vincentium de Fopa, eiusque
requisitionibus annuere, cum valde plurimumque optet emere et acquirere aliqua bona
immobilia in civitate Papie seu eius territorio, ex nunc, harum serie, ex certa scientia
et de nostre plenitudine potestatis, ac omnibus modo, iure, via, causa et forma, quibus
melius et validius et efficatius possumus, eidem Vincentio licentiam damus, concedimus
et impertimur emendi et quod emere, contrahere et acquirere possit in Civitate nostra
predicta sive eius territorio, quecumque bona immobilia, ubicumque voluerit et ei opus
fuerit, ceteraque pro premissis adimplendis facere et agere tam in iudicio quam extra,
ac possit et valeat uti et gaudere beneficio statutorum, decretorum, ordinamentorum et
cridarum editorum super bonis immobilibus vendendis, sic et quemadmodum civis,
incola et originarius dicte nostre Civitatis Papie et qui occurrentia ibi onera suferunt,
supportant et contribuunt : aliquibus statutis, decretis, ordinibus et provisionibus in
contrarium facientibus non obstantibus, quibus et in quantum premissis obviarent, vel
aliter formam darent, derogamus et derogatum esse volumus et iubemus : supplentes,
tenore presentium, omni defectui cuiuslibet solempnitatis que dici posset in premissis