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Introduced on orders of Ptolemy I to unify Greeks and Egyptians.
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collect money for Sistine Chapel from Pope Sixtus
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In this case the appointed intermediary was a bookseller named Bernardo di Neri d'Andrea. It is interesting to note this rupture since in 1483 Sandro had given Benincasa (his nephew) power of attorney to collect an unpaid debt from Sixtus IV for work in the Sistine Chapel.
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A notarial act makes public a promise by those two brothers not to molest or bother their uncle in any way.
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is two nephews, the instrument is quite clear in stating that an intermediary was to be appointed by Giovanni di Mariano to conduct any business concerning those two parties.
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Hired Lippi for a painting to honor his Grandfather to make an altarpiece.
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Giovianni and Botticelli leased property
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Botticelli's account, however, is not recorded in the books from 1464 or before. The artist's name first appears in the hospital's Quademo di cassa (cash notebooks) for 1492-96.
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made with gold and silver coins
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Deposit by Ruberto di Giovanni de' Ricci & Co., bankers
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by Arte di Porta Santa Maria, the silk weavers guild. Although there is no concrete documentary evidence to show that Sandro Botticelli executed a painting it has been established by circumstantial documentary evidence the Coronation of the Virgin with saints, now in the Uffizi, was indeed painted for the guild's chapel in the Church of San Marco in Florence sometime after 1488. The Santa Maria Nuova deposit, therefore, must be connected to this project.
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Rekoned in fiorini larghi di grossi, and transferred to another series of account books, the Libri maestri. Here the account was valued at
121 fiorini
16 soldi
8 danari. The transfer was probably made for accounting reasons, as the monies in the Quademo di cassa were in two different coins and had never been entered into the hospital's Libri di entrata. The transfer allowed for the payments to be recorded not only in the Libro di entrata but also in the hospital's own capital. -
di Giovanni de' Ricci & Co., bankers
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1495, as his portata shows, he was a comparatively poor one, is evident enough."
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Mardi Gras
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tticelli and his younger brother,
Simone, referred in their 1498 tax return. This act, and its subsequent reporting to the officials of the Decima repubblicana, show that Botticelli paid the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova 155 fiorini larghi for a
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responsible. This purchase was even in the best interests of Botticelli's relatively wealthy nephews, Amedeus and Benincasa, with whom he did not appear to have had the best of relationships, although he shared a house with them at this time. -
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Guirlamo Ruscelli experimental science became known with 'esoteric knowledge'