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Ross once found a Triomphi card note for the year 1469. We reported it ...
http://trionfi.com/0/e/29c/
at ...
Atti e memorie delle Regie Deputazioni di storia patria per le provincie modenesi e parmensi, Band 1
Carlo Vincenzi, 1865
https://books.google.de/books?id=qnQOAA ... &q&f=false
p. 112



We found then also a report of the family:









3 persons are of special interest.

Francesco (blue) pointed the Trionfi cards in 1469 and took a relative high price.

His brother Ludovica (red) was engaged in the festivities , when Eleanore of Aragon arrived (1473).

A nephew of the both (green) "dipinte le carte", but it's not clear in the context, what this precisely means. As one of the relatives made Trionfi cards, a playing card painter wouldn't surprise.

One of these might have been the producer of Este cards c. 1473.

The text is from ...
Documenti ed illustrazioni risguar danti la storia artistica ferrarese
by Luigi Napoleone Cav. Cittadella, 1868
https://archive.org/stream/documentiedi ... 0/mode/2up

Thanks, Huck. Especially but not only for the last line of your post. It seems odd to me that if one of them painted a special wedding deck, it would not have been remembered. But maybe it existed as legend, but could not be confirmed.

mikeh wrote:Thanks, Huck. Especially but not only for the last line of your post. It seems odd to me that if one of them painted a special wedding deck, it would not have been remembered. But maybe it existed as legend, but could not be confirmed.

I've heard from a private report, that readers in the Ferrarese archives (Modena, I think) are much more rare than in Florence.
So perhaps there are still treasures to discover.

btw. the book has also a family tree to Gherardo da Vicenza.
[... and you created a double post at viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1092&start=30#p18037 ]

Alberto Bonacossi (somehow responsible for finances at the court of Niccolo III d'Este in the 1420s and 1430s) ...
http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/alb ... ografico)/
.... is possibly identical to
Albero Bonacossi, mentioned as ancestor of the Bonacossi family (see genealogy in the earlier posts).

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An "Alberto Bonachosi di Ferrara" appears on a bilance list of Antonio di Salvestro di Ser Ristoro in the year 1431.

In the year 1434 Ser Ristoro is paid for 2 high-prized playing card decks by Niccolo III.


... from Sergio Tognetti: Da Figline a Firenza. Ascesa economica e politica della famiglia Serristori ( secoli XIV-XVI) (2003)
http://www.rmoa.unina.it/2584/1/volume_tognetti.pdf
.... Page 81

... compare viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1163&p=18890#p18890

Huck wrote:Alberto Bonacossi (somehow responsible for finances at the court of Niccolo III d'Este in the 1420s and 1430s) ...
http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/alb ... ografico)/
.... is possibly identical to
Albero Bonacossi, mentioned as ancestor of the Bonacossi family (see genealogy in the earlier posts).

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What I find intriguing is the additional info revealing the depth of Niccolo d'Este's involvement with Florence. Receiving a condotta is not surprising, but that he invested 100,000(!) Florins in the Florentine Monte Commune is eye-opening, especially as the city "borrowed" from that dowry fund to fund the city's wars (which oddly means that Niccolo was investing in a fund that would pay him for services rendered - I wonder if this was some odd condition of service to make sure he stayed true?). The passage in question:

Sembra che il B. prendesse parte ai negoziati con Venezia e Firenze per la condotta di Niccolò, e probabilmente per questo motivo ricevette la cittadinanza veneziana nel 1425. Nel 1434 fece un donativo di 40 lire al marchese in occasione del matrimonio di Lionello d'Este. Il 13 dicembre dello stesso anno consegnò a Niccolò la somma di 1.500 ducati e 12 grossi prelevata dagli interessi sui 100.000 fiorini che Niccolò aveva depositato presso il Monte comune di Firenze.

For the Monte connection to funding war, see, for example, Michael Veseth's Mountains of Debt: Crisis and Change in Renaissance Florence, Victorian Britian and Postwar America, 1990: 67f.

I attempted to verify, if ancestor "Albero Bonacossi" could have been "Alberto Bonachosi" ...

from ...
Dizionario storico degli uomini illustri ferraresi nella pieta, nelle arti, e nelle scienze ...: compilato ...
G. Rinaldi, 1804
https://books.google.de/books?id=27QvAA ... si&f=false







It seems, that pope Niccolo made Alberto Bonacossi Conte Palatino in 1447. If this is right, Alberto should have been still living then.
In the time of the plague generations might have been rather short.

Alberto brother of Federico, great-grandfather of our Federico the pittore?

Pinamonte Bonaccossi (+ ante 1425), ritenuto discendente da Corradino di Taino Bonacolsi, dei Signori di Mantova. Notaio. Sposa Beatrice, figlia di Pietro Munari.


A1. Federico (+ post 1406)
= Caterina, figlia di Maso da Lojano
B1. Ugo
= ………
C1. Ettore (+ post 1448)
= ………
D1. Lodovico (+ post 1506)brother of Antonio & Federico
= ………..
E1. Ettore (+ post 1522), dal quale discese Ercole (+ 1650) ultimo del suo ramo.



A2. Alberto, creato Conte Palatino del Sacro Palazzo Lateranense da Papa Niccolò V nel 1447, Fattore Ducale.

= Bartolomea, del Nobile Bartolomeo Barbalunga Giudice dei XII Savi di Ferrara e Consigliere del Marchese Nicolo

III d’Este

http://www.genmarenostrum.com/pagine-le ... acossi.htm

NOTE:
* For "born"
+ For "dead"
= For "bride"

He is mentioned in "Notes on the Ferrarese court in the later Middle Ages" by Trevor Dean, which is available but only at a cost or to subscribers (not available on the three for free bookshelf scheme) -- he writes elsewhere that "Alberto Bonacossi was fattore generale from 1418 to 1438"

He seems to have played some role in attracting Guarino to Ferrara:

"In tal modo per merito di lacopo Zilioli, uomo acutissimo, del magnifico e prudentissimo Ugo Contrario, dell'elo-
quentissimo Giovanni Gualenghi, del magnanimo e liberalissimo Gabriele Pendalia e di suo figlio Bartolomeo, di Alberto Bonacossi, uomo ricchissimo (questi erano allora i reggitori del nostro stato), giunse attesissimo a Ferrara."

"In this way, thanks to Jacopo Zilioli, an acute man, the magnificent and prudent Ugo Contrario, the most eloquent John Gualenghi, the magnanimous and very liberal Pendalia Gabriele and his son Bartolomeo, Alberto Bonacossi, a very rich man (these were then the rulers of our state), [Guarino] came highly anticipated in Ferrara."

LA LETTERATURA ITALIANA STORIA E TESTI VOLUME 13 : PROSATORI LATINI DEL QUATTROCENTO p391

"Sensitive to beauty, Parisina loved art, music, elegant clothes, luxurious furnishings. Evidence of this we find in orders and payments to local and foreign artists. One of them concerns a jewel in gold and silver by a Lombard goldsmith commissioned by Gabriel Cantu, while others deal with some gold and silver collars for her hounds.... The young Marquise had her own court and annuities administered by its factori: Gabriele Pendaglia and Alberto Bonacossi assisted by a chancellor: a certain Ugo Mazzolati, a distinguished man and a friend of Guarino, Veronese tutor to Lionello and in some ways the father of humanism in Ferrara."

http://ricerca.gelocal.it/lanuovaferrar ... 26_08.html

He was probably Girolamo Savonarola's maternal Grandfather, according to site here:
http://blinglivet.blogspot.com.tr/2015/ ... arola.html

He is listed in the Saggio sulle istituzioni finanziarie del Ducato Estense nei secoli 15° e 16°, p109:

Alberto Bonacossi Factori L 40 -- --
http://www.digibess.it/fedora/repositor ... 00561-0109

SteveM wrote:"Alberto Bonacossi was fattore generale from 1418 to 1438"

The Fattore Generale managed the financial administration of the state:

"La direzione dell' amministrazione fìnanziaria dello stato era affidata ai fattori generali."

SteveM wrote:Alberto brother of Federico, great-grandfather of our Federico the pittore?

Pinamonte Bonaccossi (+ ante 1425), ritenuto discendente da Corradino di Taino Bonacolsi, dei Signori di Mantova. Notaio. Sposa Beatrice, figlia di Pietro Munari.


A1. Federico (+ post 1406)
= Caterina, figlia di Maso da Lojano
B1. Ugo
= ………
C1. Ettore (+ post 1448)
= ………
D1. Lodovico (+ post 1506)brother of Antonio & Federico
= ………..
E1. Ettore (+ post 1522), dal quale discese Ercole (+ 1650) ultimo del suo ramo.



A2. Alberto, creato Conte Palatino del Sacro Palazzo Lateranense da Papa Niccolò V nel 1447, Fattore Ducale.

= Bartolomea, del Nobile Bartolomeo Barbalunga Giudice dei XII Savi di Ferrara e Consigliere del Marchese Nicolo

III d’Este

http://www.genmarenostrum.com/pagine-le ... acossi.htm

The first paragraph of the report on the family you linked to mentions the possible connection between the painters and the noble family - beginning with the statement "I do not know whether we should believe Baruffaldi when he tells us that the painter Ercole Bonacossi belonged to the noble family that still exists in this city", and ending with "lead me to suspect that he really belonged to the same family." Although he is dissuaded by lack of reference in a family tree he had seen by Conti, he is persuaded otherwise by Ugo in his will being called the son of the commendable Federico, and by some common addresses between the families, and some reference to the address of his father (patre), though living separately from him (reading seorum as the latin separate), and the Fattore of the Marquise; I don't completely follow it, maybe Mike can make some sense of it --

Io non so se si debba credere al Baruffaldi quando ci dice che il pittore Ercole Bonacossi appartenne alla nobilissima Famiglia tuttora esistente in questa città. Me ne dissuaderebbe il non trovar menzione di esso , né de' suoi ascendenti o discendenti od affini , nell' albero che vidi nell Archivio de' Signori Conti di questo cognome , e del quale deposi una copia nella Comunale Biblioteca: ma d'altronde, il vedere che Ugo nel suo testamento è chiamato figlio del commendabile uomo Federico; che abitava nella Parrocchia di San Gregorio dove già la nobile famiglia trovavasi avere dimora anche nel 1428 ( che nel 1407 stava nel sesto di San Romano), cioè un anno prima del suo testamento; e che nel 1429, sebbene parrocchiano di San Gregorio, abitava nonostante in Borgo della Pioppa, seorsum a patre suo, qual officiale del Maréhese Nicolò d' Este in una di lui Fattoria, mi inducono a sospettare che veramente appartenesse ad uno stesso casato.

I do not know whether we should believe Baruffaldi when he tells us that the painter Ercole Bonacossi belonged to the noble family that still exists in this city. I am dissuaded as I find no mention of him, nor his ascendants or descendants or kindred, in a tree that I saw of Lords of this name in the Archive of Signore Conti, and a copy of which deposited in the Municipal Library: but then, to see that Ugo in his will is called the son of the commendable man Federico; who lived in the parish of San Gregorio, where already the noble family have also a dwelling in 1428 (which in 1407 was the sixth of San Romano), one year before his will; and in 1429, although parishioner of St. Gregory, lived in spite {?} in the Borgo della Pioppa, separate to his father,{? seorsum a patre suo, qual officiale del Maréhese Nicolò d' Este in una di lui Fattoria,} lead me to suspect that he did indeed belong to the same family.

"officiale del Maréhese Nicolò d' Este in una di lui Fattoria" I presume is reference to Alberto, who held the office office of Fattori under Nicolo d'Este --

SteveM wrote: and in 1429, although parishioner of St. Gregory, lived in spite in the Borgo della Pioppa, separate to his father,{? seorsum a patre suo, qual officiale del Maréhese Nicolò d' Este in una di lui Fattoria,} lead me to suspect that he did indeed belong to the same family.[/i]

"officiale del Maréhese Nicolò d' Este in una di lui Fattoria" I presume is reference to Alberto, who held the office office of Fattori under Nicolo d'Este --

So instead of living with his father, in the Parish of St Gregory, Ugo is living separate to his father, in Borgo della Pioppa, in some connection with the Fattori of the Marquise (Alberto - his Uncle)? Or he was there in an official capacity himself for the Marquise?

Not sure where Alberto lived, but he had something to do with the village of Pioppa:

"In the plan of the city of Ferrara, made in 1339, there is marked the Church of Santo Spirito in Borgo della Pioppa.
At the time of the Marquis of Nicolò III d'Este, his advisor and legal secretary, Bartolomeo de Mella, with considerable wealth, did his utmost to expand the church and convent of Santo Spirito.

"It was the year 1407, about the start date of the work, there are two versions: - the first is the columnist James Delayto who, in his "Chronica Nova", indicates the date of June; the second is the historian Jacopo da Marano, who, in his book "Principle et Ferrara origin", fixed a precise date, namely 15 May 1407, explaining also that the earthworks took place since the previous March.

"In 1381, Master Bartolino from Novara, engineer of the Marquis d'Este, had to repair at his own expense, the grandstand building, next to the right side, the Chapel of St. Anthony; in 1391, the same Bartolino built, even at his own expense, a second chapel and, two years later, commissioned by Marquis Alberto d'Este, he built a third, dedicated to St. James of the year Galizia.- In 1435, arose the Alberto Bonacossi Chapels, one called the Assumption and one dedicated to the noble De' Roberti."

Thanks for your interest in the Bonacossi case ... there are various points, which are not totally clear. Perhaps with the time, one will find clearer sources.