Original scientific paper

Georgius Benignus (Juraj Dragišić) and Piero De'Medici

Zvonko Pandžić

Abstract

Here the author publishes and comments on ten letters which haven’t been published yet and which Georgius Benignus de Salviatis (Juraj Dragišić, about 1445–1520) – professor in Urbino, Florence and Pisa and clerical dignitary and protegé of the Medici family – addressed to Piero de’ Medici. The letters date back to the short reign of Piero de’ Medici over the Republic of Florence (1492– 1494) and were written during the illness and after the death of his father Lorenzo the Magnificent, that is shortly before the expulsion of the Medici family from Florence, in November 1494.
The original letters are kept in the Archivio di Stato di Firenze, in the Archivio Mediceo avanti il Principato section. They relate basically to the times and circumstances when Piero de’Medici tried to win the second term for his protegé as provincial abbot of the Franciscan province of Tuscany. As provincial abbot of Tuscany, Benignus would have the chance to run for the post of a general of the Franciscan order. Besides, Benignus was asking Piero for some favours for himself and his friends. In this way, in a letter from January 9th, 1493 (doc. 3) to Piero de’ Medici, he supported the Jews who, at the time, were made to pay a certain fee to the benefit of the Republic of Florence.

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Hrčak ID:

72242

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/72242

Publication date:

3.12.2001.

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