Autore
Carboni, Mauro

Titolo
Preteritorum memorans et futura providens. L'eredità di un mercante nella Bologna barocca
Periodico
Quaderni storici
Anno: 2019 - Volume: 162 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 657 - Pagina finale: 688

The age of Baroque was characterized by a detectable shift in patternsof charitable giving. The will of Antonio Masini, both a prolific writer anda successful silk merchant in Bologna, is illustrative of the new practice.Celibate and hardly on good terms with his in laws, upon his death in 1691Masini left all his assets to a most revered civic institution, the hospital ofSanta Maria della Morte. The bequest was drafted in way to create a lastinglegacy so that the donor could exert control over the living from the grave, andin doing so he could both show his devotion and enhance his fame and glory.



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