Music-selling in seventeenth-century Rome: three ... - Patrizio Barbieri

136 Patrizio Barbierihis agent the Venetian printer Bonifacio Ciera. The latter was charged by him withreviewing the accounts for books of various kinds sent him by one Livio Gnecchi ofPadua. 15 In turn, Francesco Carampelli gave a similar assignment to his nipote AntonioCarampelli, resident in Venice. 16 Francesco (who signs his name as ‘Carampello’)must consequently have been a kinsman of the Bartolomeo Carampello, a printeroperating in Venice, who in 1596 published Lodovico Zacconi’s Pratica di musica. 171606. Business prospered for both families. Indeed, beside their activity as booksellers,a deed reveals that in this year Giovanni Antonio Franzini, Francesco Carampelliand his wife Plautilla made over their printing works at the Zecca for nineyears to a certain Giovanni Corti of Mondovì (Piedmont), in exchange for one-thirdof the profits. 181619. From the Status animarum registers for the parish of S. Lorenzo in Damaso wefind that in 1609–10 the two partners had split up, and even lived separately. A rentalagreement tells us that the Carampelli bookshop was at the sign of the “Fontanad’oro” (Golden Fountain), evidently to distinguish it from the one at the “Fontanad’argento” (Silver Fountain), managed by Giovanni Antonio Franzini, also on Via delPellegrino. 19 These two names also reflected the character of the street, which numberedmany gold- and silversmiths.1621. Plautilla Franzini dies, leaving as her universal heir the “Compagnia di S.Anna”, whose office was in the Church of Ss. Faustino e Iovita della Nazione Bresciana,in Rome. 20 We have seen that Plautilla in turn had been named as universalheir by her father Girolamo. In his last will (1596), the latter had however added aclause that, if his daughter died without issue, the inheritance would revert to hiswife (Anna Gribbi), to his brothers (Giovanni Antonio and Giovanni ‘Piccino’) or tohis nephews. Since only the said nephews survived in 1621, and since Plautilla had noissue, Giovanni Domenico Franzini, son of Giovanni Antonio, challenged Plautilla’s15. AS, 30 Not. Cap., uff. 4, vol. 72, f. 210, 7.6.1603. From f. 539 we learn that on August 1st 1603,Giovanni Antonio, again for the auditing of the accounts of Livio Gnecchi, appoints as his agents “Ant.Oreva et Io. Hieronimum Rivam Genuae commorantes”.16. This time, the legal proceedings were between Carampelli and one “Andreas de Puttis venetumpictorem”: AS, 30 Not. Cap., uff. 4, vol. 72, f. 280 (19.6.1603) and fs. 486–7 (26.7.1603).17. On Bartolomeo, see claudio sartori, Dizionario degli editori musicali italiani, Firenze, Olschki,1958, p. 40.18. AS, 30 Not. Cap., uff. 3, vol. 74, f. 92, 6.1.1606.19. AS, 30 Not. Cap., uff. 32, vol. 52, f. 431, 25.2.1619: the Roman Margarita Montana rents an apartmenton the second floor in Via del Pellegrino to “Francesco Carampello librario ad Pellegrinum adinsignam [sic] fontanae auri”. The existence of the two bookshops and their attached dwellings is evidencedby the registers kept at AV, S. Lorenzo in Damaso, Status animarum, also for the following years.On the denomination “Fontana d’argento”, see franchi, Le impressioni sceniche, p. 283.20. Church demolished toward the end of the nineteenth century, to make way for the presentdayLungotevere (Tiber embankment): it stood between the Tiber and Via Giulia, near the site of thechurch of S. Biagio della Pagnotta: stefano borsi, Roma di Sisto V. La pianta di Antonio Tempesta, 1593,Roma, Officina Edizioni, 1986, map facing p. I–3.