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from France. They also possessed the casket in which S. Veronica
brought the Holy Head to Rome.
Turning to the Statuti della Venerabile Confraternitci di S. Eligio De’
Ferrari di Roma (Roma, Stamp, della R.C.A. 4to, 1839, pp. vii + 64) at p. iv,
a history of the guild will be found. From this it will be seen that it is
not known precisely when the Universita of the Ferrari was instituted. It
is certain that on September 26, 1453, Nicolas V conceded them the church
of S. Giacomo d’Alto-Passo and S. Martino for their use and for their
Hospital. These buildings were apparently abandoned as too remote, and
in 1561 the Ferrari stipulated with a builder named Calvanis for the
construction of a church near the Piazza della Consolazione. This church
was dedicated to S. Eligio de’ Ferrari.
Rodocanachi, quoting the Statutes of the Merchants of Rome, which I
have not come across, p. 28, paragraph 103, states at p. 209, vol. ii, of his
Corporations Ouvrieres a Rome, that in the fourteenth century the Gold-
smiths were subject to the Merchants.
From A. Bertolotti’s Artisti Lombardi a Roma nei Secoli X V, XVI e
XVII (Milano, Floepli, 1881, 2 vols. 8vo), vol. ii, p. 312, it will be seen that
on June 13, 1508, the following members of the Universita of the Gold-
smiths of Rome met in the Oratory of S. Peter and S. Paul, in the
Universita of the Confraternity of the Gonfalone—as they possessed no
meeting-place of their own—and decided to construct a church in a garden,
where there were the remains of a church formerly dedicated to San
Fusterio,1 situated in the quarter of the Regola, near the river, purchasing
the ground from the heirs of Michele Castigli:—
Fulvio Surrentino di Angelino, Consul.
Sigismondo Demonte di Domenico da Ferrara, Consul.
Lodovico de Paganis, mediolanensis, Consul.
The fourth Consul was Antonio degli Inferrerii, who was absent from
the meeting.
Michael de luuenalibus.
Sanctus Cola Sabba.
Julianus delle Conte.
Domenicus di Michaelle de Sutrio.
1 Armellini, Chiese di Roma, 423 calls it S. Eusterio. According to him it was more generally
known as S. Aurea in the 16th century and from the 17th onwards as the church of the Spirito
Santo dei Napoletani. He thus distinguishes S. Eusterio from S. Eligio de’ Ferrari.
from France. They also possessed the casket in which S. Veronica
brought the Holy Head to Rome.
Turning to the Statuti della Venerabile Confraternitci di S. Eligio De’
Ferrari di Roma (Roma, Stamp, della R.C.A. 4to, 1839, pp. vii + 64) at p. iv,
a history of the guild will be found. From this it will be seen that it is
not known precisely when the Universita of the Ferrari was instituted. It
is certain that on September 26, 1453, Nicolas V conceded them the church
of S. Giacomo d’Alto-Passo and S. Martino for their use and for their
Hospital. These buildings were apparently abandoned as too remote, and
in 1561 the Ferrari stipulated with a builder named Calvanis for the
construction of a church near the Piazza della Consolazione. This church
was dedicated to S. Eligio de’ Ferrari.
Rodocanachi, quoting the Statutes of the Merchants of Rome, which I
have not come across, p. 28, paragraph 103, states at p. 209, vol. ii, of his
Corporations Ouvrieres a Rome, that in the fourteenth century the Gold-
smiths were subject to the Merchants.
From A. Bertolotti’s Artisti Lombardi a Roma nei Secoli X V, XVI e
XVII (Milano, Floepli, 1881, 2 vols. 8vo), vol. ii, p. 312, it will be seen that
on June 13, 1508, the following members of the Universita of the Gold-
smiths of Rome met in the Oratory of S. Peter and S. Paul, in the
Universita of the Confraternity of the Gonfalone—as they possessed no
meeting-place of their own—and decided to construct a church in a garden,
where there were the remains of a church formerly dedicated to San
Fusterio,1 situated in the quarter of the Regola, near the river, purchasing
the ground from the heirs of Michele Castigli:—
Fulvio Surrentino di Angelino, Consul.
Sigismondo Demonte di Domenico da Ferrara, Consul.
Lodovico de Paganis, mediolanensis, Consul.
The fourth Consul was Antonio degli Inferrerii, who was absent from
the meeting.
Michael de luuenalibus.
Sanctus Cola Sabba.
Julianus delle Conte.
Domenicus di Michaelle de Sutrio.
1 Armellini, Chiese di Roma, 423 calls it S. Eusterio. According to him it was more generally
known as S. Aurea in the 16th century and from the 17th onwards as the church of the Spirito
Santo dei Napoletani. He thus distinguishes S. Eusterio from S. Eligio de’ Ferrari.