![]() ![]() This case study uses records in Florence’s State Archives to examine a rural community’s fractious elites and their engagement with a civic tribunal. Andrea disappears from the notarial record after 1347 ( NA.1010.11 r–11 v). The lawsuit breaks off abruptly after both parties registered their witness lists (EOG.81.43 v). This claim began a trial in which Bartolomeo’s lawyer, Stefano, countered Andrea’s claims with an attempt to undermine Andrea’s self-representation (EOG.81.32 r–35 r). His accusation asserted rightful possession of the land in question, which demonstrated the secondary fact of illegal seizure. He seems to have incurred no penalty for his previous conviction: the current Executor’s judge allowed him to proceed. When he could not make a defense, he was sentenced to a 300- lire fine (EOG.5.23 r –24 r).īy 1347 Andrea was ready to resume his quarrel with Bartolomeo, with an accusation for land theft that he filed in the Executor’s civil court (EOG.81.26 v). Andrea was confined to Le Stinche, the communal prison. His initial sentence was confirmed upon his confession. Unable to produce guarantors ( fideiussores), he was imprisoned. By March 1344, Andrea was under investigation for fraudulent denunciation (EOG.1.52 r). The Executor’s criminal court appears to have initially prosecuted Bartolomeo, and then reversed course. In 1343–4, he had denounced Bartolomeo for assaulting him and his brothers, Piero and Guido, in 1343 (EOG.1.52 r). This was the third time since 1343 that Andrea appeared in the records of Florence’s Executor of the Ordinances of Justice. The notary Andrea, a resident of Latera, in northeastern Tuscany, must have been exasperated on May 12, 1347, as he initiated a lawsuit against his neighbor Bartolomeo Pulci, scion of one of the elite Florentine lineages prescribed as magnates (EOG.81.26 v). ![]()
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