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

326 VINCENZO FOPPA
58. Licence granted to Foppa by the Council of Brescia to go to Pavia for one
month to safeguard his disputed rights in a certain house which he owned there. He
undertakes to execute no paintings while absent.
August 30,
1491, Brescia.
MCCCCLXXXXI, Die xxx Augusti in Consilio Speciali.
Pro Magistro Vincentio de Foppa Brixiano, pictore egregio,
Licentia data M^° conducto per Comunitatem nostram propter ejus pingendi singu-
Vincentio pictori in- larem virtutem cum provisione librarum centum planet in annum,
sign! : eundi Papiam petente quod ei concedatur bona licentia (ut) possit ire Papiam
et standi per mensem usque, pro tuendo jura sua in quadam domo, quam habet in dicta
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Papiensi civitate, de qua ei mota est lis, et dicente aliquam
picture operam facere nolle : Captum fuit de ballotis undecim
affirmativis et una negativa quod ei concedatur bona licentia eundi Papiam per mensem
unum, occasione dicte litis ei mote.
Arch. Ant. Mun. Brescia, Prov., 1491, f. 47 v.
Zani, op. cit, IX, p. 229, note 84.
Fenaroli, p. 131.
Chap, vni, p. 185.
59. Vincenzo Foppa pays in person the " livello " for his house at Pavia.
November 11,
1491, Pavia.
Francesco de Betiis, Canon of S. Invenzio, acting on behalf of Giacomo de Betiis,
administrator of the hospital of S. Invenzio, declares, " versum magistrum Vincentium
de Foppa de Brissia pictorem ibi presentem," that he has received from him the
" livello " of one soldo, being the charge payable every year upon the painter's house.
Arch. Not. Pavia, Atti di Girolamo Moracavalli.
Chap. VHi, pp. 186, 187.1
60. Payment to Foppa of the sum of 51 lire 95 soldi by a merchant of Pavia in full
discharge of a debt.
June 20,
1492, Pavia.
In nomine Domini, &c. Anno, &c. in civitate Papie, videlicet ad banchum
dominorum Consulum Mercatorum Papie, situm in Porta Marenga, Parochia Sancte
Tecle. Ibique, &c. Magister Vincentius de Fopa, pinctor, civis papiensis et habitator
in presenciarum civitatis Brisie, . . . confitetur versus me notarium . . . recipientem
nomine . . . domini Petri Pauli de Guenzate mercatoris Papie, se ipsum magistrum
Vincentium ab ipso domino Petro Paulo habuisse et recepisse libras quinquaginta unam
et soldos novem imperiales, pro plena et integra solutione illius debiti alias per ipsum
dominum Petrum Paulum confessati versus ipsum magistrum Vincentium, occasione de
qua et prout fit mentio in ipso instrumento rogato anno, indicione et die in eo contentis
1 See also chap, vi, p. 140, note 2, and p. 141 ; and App. B, Nos. 4 and 5.