Autore
Pellegrini, Michele

Titolo
"Pauperes sic nominati et electi". Identificare, scegliere, distribuire: poveri ed esecutori testamentari a Siena fra Due e Trecento
Periodico
Quaderni storici
Anno: 2024 - Volume: 176 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 329 - Pagina finale: 359

The essay sheds light on the complex system of practices of ethical redistribution of private wealth conveyed by the execution, often slow and partial, of the testamentary dispositions "pro anima" in late thirteenth-century Siena. A system whose main protagonists were the lay executors chosen by the testators from among their family, friends and business companions, who were progressively flanked and superimposed, with the intentions of coordination and control, an apparatus of figures of authority and specialized operators, populated by clerics but also by lay or semi-religious – merchants, notaries, artisans – accredited not only by a recognized reputation for moral rectitude, also by solid technical skills in the writing and economic management of the sums tied to pious causes. Through the detailed examination of a good number of «private» execution records prior to the plague, choices and strategies adopted during execution in the selection of the poor are identified, high lighting a tendency to reorient the redistribution circuits towards an audience of non-anonymous recipients, known and recognized as included parties, albeit fragile, of the civitas.



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