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The cathedral of Milan and its fabulous donor
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The cathedral of Milan and its fabulous donor
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Saltamacchia
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Martina
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Bell
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Rudolph M.
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Masschaele
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James
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Kelly
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Samantha L.
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Samantha L. Kelly
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Thomas F.
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Thomas F. Madden
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2013
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This dissertation focuses on Marco Carelli, a fourteenth-century wealthy Milanese merchant who in 1391 donated his vast patrimony to jump-start the building of the city's new cathedral. The intent in each chapter is to weave together a "life" that reflects upon its time. Through wills, merchandise inventories, confraternity statutes, accounting books, sale contracts, and trial minutes dug out of the archives of Bruges, Lille, Milan, and Venice, I reconstruct the life of a man who is in many ways typical for his period. The profile that emerges from this detailed analysis profoundly contradicts the standard historiography of the rapacious merchant who bestowed lavish gifts to buy his way into heaven by paying off time owed for his sins and as well to create earthly monuments to himself. Further, the thesis challenges the prevailing divide among scholars that separates economic and religious spheres, which leads in my judgment to an artificially bifurcated portrait of medieval society and mentality. For a medieval merchant, I argue, being a good Christian meant devoting himself to success in business and equally to charitable deeds, always making great profits on his investments. After an introductory chapter to set the scene, Chapter Two focuses on the Carelli family before Marco was someone of importance, showing how his attitudes and skills were rooted in a robust familial tradition of merchants with solid patrimony and tight networks of commercial alliances acquired through farsighted marital strategies. Then, it explores Marco Carelli's golden age and the construction of his trans-regional mercantile empire, looking at his modus operandi to understand more about choices and decisions, explaining the factors that contributed to his success, and showing the profound intertwining between business and faith, omnipresent in the merchant's life. Chapter Four examines the merchant's bequest to the Milan Cathedral through the examination of his two wills and codicil. The final chapter describes how the cathedral Fabbrica decided to celebrate his death, and to honor his body and his memory - notwithstanding that he asked for none of the pomp and ceremony, only for masses for the salvation of his soul.
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History
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Church buildings--Italy--Milan
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Merchants--Italy--Milan--Biography
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xiii, 276 p. : ill.
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Ph.D.
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by Martina Saltamacchia
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after January 31st, 2015.
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