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

Music-selling in seventeenth-century Rome 137will and had an inventory made of the assets left by her. 21 Of the said inventory, AppendixI transcribes only the part relating to musical publications. While awaiting alegal solution to this intricate matter, the inventoried assets remained in the custodyof Francesco Carampelli, who thus continued to manage the bookshop at the sign ofthe “Fontana d’oro”, a part of which, however, belonged to Plautilla’s heirs.1625. On 22 January Francesco Carampelli dies, aged about seventy-five, eventhough the death certificate states “of roughly 90 years”. 22 In § 2 we shall see that,nothwithstanding his advanced years, he had continued to enrich his bookshop withnew publications. From his will, dated 22 June 1622, we learn that he was born atSabbio, a locality not far from Salò, which was the Franzini’s home town. In it, heappoints as his universal heir his already-mentioned nipote Antonio, living in theVenetian Republic. Since Antonio only outlived him by one month, the inheritancepassed to Antonio’s sons, Andrea and Pietro Carampelli. The part of the books belongingto Francesco, as a result of the division agreed to with Plautilla’s heirs, wassold to a certain Tomaso Egidio for 1,050 scudi. If we add other assets, the inheritanceleft by Francesco amounted to the not negligible sum of 1,195 scudi. That the latterhad in the meantime continued to maintain trade relations with Venice is confirmedby the fact that the said will dated 1622 mentions “Messrs Sessa, printers in Venice”(the same who in 1589 had republished the famous Toscanello della musica by PietroAron) and, in the same city, “Alessandro Vincenzo” (i.e. the music printer Vincenti,to whom he owed money). He also left cash amounts to many persons close to him,including his shopboys, without however any mention of the Franzini. 231629. Legal procedures continue concerning the Plautilla inheritance. Accordingto one estimate, her assets amount to the considerable sum of 5533.94 scudi. Deducting500 scudi, which came from her dowry, the remaining total is 5033.94, which areshared out as follows: 2689.45 to the Compagnia di S. Anna (i.e to the church of theBresciani) and 2344.49 to the Franzini family. 241631. Of the said share belonging to the Franzini, it is agreed that 1415.24 scudishould be assigned to Giovanni Domenico and his sisters, all in books (of which21. AS, 30 Not. Cap., uff. 31, vol. 135, f. 275, 9.2.1633 (Girolamo’s last will bears the date 11 August1596). The voluminous inventory of the bookshop “in via Peregrini ad signum Fontis Aurei”, drafted inthe presence of the notary, is found in AS, 30 Not. Cap., uff. 30, vol. 99, ff. 368r–517r, 27.10.1621.22. AV, S. Lorenzo in Damaso, Liber defunctorum II, f. 116v: “22 gennaro 1625. Francesco Carampellavenetiano libraro d’anni 90 in circa habitante in questa parrocchia nella strada del Pelegrino essendosiconfessato alli 19 gennaro 1625 comunicato alli 20 ricevuto l’olio santo alli 21 morì a dì detto e fu sepoltoin questa chiesa”. From previous Status animarum registers for the same parish, however, it appearshe must have been born around 1550.23. AS, 30 Not. Cap., uff. 25, vol. 105, f. 375, 3.12.1626 (“Hereditas q. Francisci et Antonij Carampelli”).f. 377 shows the will dated 22 June 1622. On f. 382 the “Inventarium bonorum in hereditateq. Francisci Carampelli”, which records: “In primis una parte di libraria ò libri toccati in parte all’heredidi esso Carampelli nella divisione et concordia fatta coll’heredi et Plautilla sua moglie venduti al sig. rTomaso Egidio per scudi mille et cinquanta. / Mobili valutati scudi cento trenta sette. / Un anello d’orocon topatio di prezzo di scudi cinque con secchietto d’argento di peso di scudi otto moneta”.24. AS, 30 Not. Cap., uff. 31, vol. 124, f. 461, 30.6.1629.