List of Abbreviations

AAV Vatican City, Archivio Apos­to­lico Vaticano

Cam. Ap. Camera Apostolica

Div. Cam. Diversa Cameralia

Intr. et Ex. Intro­itus et Exitus

Reg. Vat. Registri Vaticani

AB Florence, Archivio Buonarroti

ADP Rome, Archivio Doria Pamphilj

ASC Rome, Archivio Storico Capitolino

ASF Florence, Archivio di Stato

LB Eredità di Lemmo Balducci

MAP Archivio Mediceo avanti il Principato

ASM Milan, Archivio di Stato

CVS Cart­eggio Visconteo Sforzesco

ASMn Mantua, Archivio di Stato

AG Archivio Gonzaga

ASN Naples, Archivio di Stato

ARS Archivio Riario-Sforza

ASR Rome, Archivio di Stato

Coll. Not. Cap. Collegio dei Notai Capitolini

Notai dell’A.C. Notai del tribu­nale dell’Auditor Camerae

AV Rome, Archivio Storico del Vica­riato di Roma

BAV Vatican City, Biblio­teca Apos­to­lica Vaticana

BL London, British Library

BNN Naples, Biblio­teca Nazio­nale di Napoli

CensusIDs refer to records in the Census of Antique Works of Art and Archi­tec­ture Known in the Renais­sance, https://database.census.de. CensusIDs are provided for the antique and rele­vant Early Modern artworks mentioned in this text. 

Abbre­via­tions for currency largely follow the conven­tions adopted in Rab Hatfield, The Wealth of Michel­an­gelo, Studi e testi del Rina­sci­mento europeo, 16 (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e lette­ra­tura and Isti­tuto Nazio­nale di Studi sul Rina­sci­mento, 2002). The tran­sac­tions cited in this text are made in several diffe­rent curren­cies. ‘Ducats’ cited here are either ducats of carlini (ducati di carlini) or Cameral ducats (ducati di Camera). One ducato di carlini was equi­va­lent to 10 carlini and to 75 bolo­gnini. During the papacy of Julius II, accounts begin to be calcu­lated in ducati di giuli rather than ducati di carlini, with each ducat equi­va­lent to 10 giuli. Cameral ducats (ducati di Camera), also known as fiorini papali, had diffe­rent values than ducats of carlini and were worth some­what more than ducati di carlini when the curren­cies were converted, at variable rates, in the Galli-Balducci accounts; in the context of the Sant’Agostino altar­piece commis­sioned from Michel­an­gelo in 1500, for example, 60 Cameral ducats equalled 78 ducats of carlini. In the 1530s in Rome, gold ducati di Camera were replaced by scudi d’oro.

Map 1: The Rione Parione and surroun­ding areas, based on the Catasto Urbano (1818–1824), showing: 1 San Salva­tore in Lauro 2 Palazzo of Girolamo Riario 3 Piazza Sant’Apollinare 4 Sant’Agostino 5 Piazza Navona 6 Stables of the Palazzo San Giorgio 7 Banda sinistra of the via dei Leutari 8 Casa grande of the Galli 9 San Lorenzo in Damaso 10 Palaz­zetto of the Galli on Piazza San Lorenzo in Damaso 11 Arco di Santa Marghe­rita 12 Campo de’ Fiori 13 Ruins of the Theatre of Pompey. 

map 2 Map based on the Catasto Urbano (1818–1824) showing the hypo­the­tical loca­tion (in orange) of the proper­ties of the Sant­acroce and Signo­retti, the old cardinal’s palace of San Lorenzo in Damaso, the stables of the old cardinal’s palace, and the old basi­lica of San Lorenzo in Damaso before its recon­s­truc­tion by Cardinal Riario, based on Mari, ed., Palazzo della Cancel­leria, tavola vi.

map 3 Map based on the appro­xi­mate area of proper­ties once owned by Jacopo Galli (red) and Cardinal Riario (yellow), based on the Catasto Urbano (1818–1824).