Resumen de Il presunto testamento di Donatello: una donazione "inter vivos"
Silvia Sinibaldi, Simone Sartini
A recently-discovered document in the State Archives of Florence reveals that in 1460 Donatello made a donation to Giovanni di Buonaiuto Lorini Cavalloni. The artist leaves Giovanni, a farsettaio (doublet-maker) of the Florentine parish of San Niccolò, a house for use as a mill and a piece of ground and woodland located in the village of Figline di Prato, on condition that the passage of property occurs after his death; and he appoints Giovanni as his posthumous legal representative. Thorough research in the heraldic and genealogical collections of the State Archives of Florence enables the author to establish how Donatello and Giovanni were related. The Lorini Cavalloni were patrons of a chapel in the church of San Niccolò Oltrarno, known as the "Cappella del Crocifisso" because of the presence of a wooden Crucifx attributes to Michelozzo, and the article also reviews the debate on its attribution in order to associate the sculpture with these discoveries.
