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BIOGRAPHY
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country, and of an exceedingly numerous clientele. It
is true that this clientele is revealed to us only by its
debts, but the number and importance of the names
prove his poulterer’s business to have been large and
prosperous.
The family consisted of Jacopo, his wife Tomasa
and their six children, four sons and two daughters, of
whom Antonio was the eldest. Of Salvestro, next to
him in age, who seems to have passed most of his life in
Pistoja, we hear nothing of importance. Giovanni, like
his father, was a poulterer, and inherited the shop in
the Mercato Vecchio. He was married to Ginevra,
daughter of Francesco Baccegli, and had five children,
Salvestro, Raffaello, Lucrezia, Francesco, and Domenico.
Piero, the youngest of the brothers, was trained as
painter and sculptor, and had, as will be seen, a bottega
independent of Antonio. He never married, but left
. an illegitimate daughter—Lisa. The three brothers,
Antonio, Giovanni, and Piero, shared a house in the
Piazza degli Agli, near S. Maria Maggiore, no longer
in existence. In 1480, when each made his separate
deposition to the Catasto, they were living together,
Jacopo the father, eighty-one years old, being sup-
ported by Giovanni, and Tomasa the mother, sixty-
eight, by Piero. Why the younger sons, rather than
Antonio the eldest, should have borne the expense of
supporting the aged parents, does not transpire.
Antonio was born January 17,1432.* According to
* The year of his birth is not absolutely certain, but this date is
the most probable. In his Portata to the Catasto of May 31, 1433
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country, and of an exceedingly numerous clientele. It
is true that this clientele is revealed to us only by its
debts, but the number and importance of the names
prove his poulterer’s business to have been large and
prosperous.
The family consisted of Jacopo, his wife Tomasa
and their six children, four sons and two daughters, of
whom Antonio was the eldest. Of Salvestro, next to
him in age, who seems to have passed most of his life in
Pistoja, we hear nothing of importance. Giovanni, like
his father, was a poulterer, and inherited the shop in
the Mercato Vecchio. He was married to Ginevra,
daughter of Francesco Baccegli, and had five children,
Salvestro, Raffaello, Lucrezia, Francesco, and Domenico.
Piero, the youngest of the brothers, was trained as
painter and sculptor, and had, as will be seen, a bottega
independent of Antonio. He never married, but left
. an illegitimate daughter—Lisa. The three brothers,
Antonio, Giovanni, and Piero, shared a house in the
Piazza degli Agli, near S. Maria Maggiore, no longer
in existence. In 1480, when each made his separate
deposition to the Catasto, they were living together,
Jacopo the father, eighty-one years old, being sup-
ported by Giovanni, and Tomasa the mother, sixty-
eight, by Piero. Why the younger sons, rather than
Antonio the eldest, should have borne the expense of
supporting the aged parents, does not transpire.
Antonio was born January 17,1432.* According to
* The year of his birth is not absolutely certain, but this date is
the most probable. In his Portata to the Catasto of May 31, 1433