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Remembering the Family: Women, Kin, and Commemorative Masses in Renaissance Florence *

1989; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 42; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/2862275

1935-0236

Sharon T. Strocchia,

Italian Fascism and Post-war Society

In August 1465 Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi, mother of the art patron and builder Filippo Strozzi, arranged for an annual set of masses in the parish church of Santa Maria Ughi. Her purpose, as she said, was to commemorate the souls of “all our dead,” “tutti enostri passati” (sic) . In her record of the commission, Alessandra carefully outlined the conditions of the bequest. She noted, for example, the location of the land donation whose proceeds subsidized the masses and the day the ten masses were to be performed, and made alternate arrangements should the priests of Santa Maria Ughi fail to uphold their obligations. Yet within this context of legal specifications and formulae, Alessandra remained curiously vague about one of the program's essential clauses: namely, the precise identity of “all our dead.“