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History of the Bardi family. Among other things, it documents their feud with the Soderini family with which they were bitterly antagonistic for generations. These documents tell of an unsuccessful plot to kill Piero Soderini and other actions taken between these two rival families. The manuscript was written in a simple code that is a mix of Latin and Greek. The probable intention of this code was to make the material difficult to read and to confuse the Bardi's enemies.

Scope and Contents The attorney Bernardino di Cristoforo Cacchi was hired by the two younger sons of Pirro Passerini Bali, a citizen of Cortona, to protect their interests and the interests of their mother, Caterina the daughter of Filippo Gondi, "regarding the properties left by their beloved father and husband." Under the laws of Cortona, Cacchi took charge of the administration of the inheritance. The document records the profits and expenses earned from the properties of Pirro Passerni Bali to be sure...

Scope and Contents This manuscript was written on small folio paper, and probably bound in the early 17th century in Italian limp boards. The text is written in a large cursive roughly 29 lines to a page. It is an anonymous and probably an unknown biography of Francesco Ferrucci, the Florentine merchant, farmer, and condottiere, who was killed in 1530 in the defense of Florence against the returning Medici. This work was probably that of a contemporary who was likely an eye-witness to much that he...