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Report No. r193 |
Fortunatus de Perusio |
c.1430–1477 |
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| Alternative Names |
Fortunato Coppoli; Fortunatus de Coppolis; Fortunato da Perugia; Fortunatus Perusinus; Fortunatus de Copolis; Franciscus Fortunatus Perusinus |
Biography/Description |
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Fortunatus was born in Perugia around 1430 and studied both laws there. In 1455, he was about to marry, but preferred to enter the Franciscan order in a sudden spiritual conversion. He became the founder of a bank giving loans for non-monetary pledges, called Monte dei poveri, at Perugia. Fortunatus then went on to establish similar institutions all over Italy, which he promoted through sermons, disputations and an extensive consilium (1469/73). Some of them survive in writing and reveal his legal formation. Fortunatus died in 1477. |
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Entry by: KP rev BP 2015 |
Text(s) |
| No. 1 | Consilium de monte pietatis. |
| No. 2 | Circa materiam ludi. |
| No. 3 | De decimis, de usuris, de emptione. |
| No. 4 | Glosses on the Summa Pisanella. |
Text(s) – Manuscripts |
| No. 1 |
Consilium de monte pietatis. |
| Manuscript | Cortona, BC 249, fol. 39r–45v |
| No. 2 |
Circa materiam ludi. |
| Manuscript | Assisi, BC 629, fol. 335v–339v |
Assisi, Bibl. storico-francescana 13, fol. 234v–37r |
Assisi, Bibl. storico-francescana 30, fol. 125v–27v |
Foligno, BC A.10.1.16, fol. 125v–127v |
Modena, Bibl. Estense lat. a.V.9.8, fol. 363r |
| No. 3 |
De decimis, de usuris, de emptione. |
| Manuscript | Assisi, BC 629, fol. 339v–440v |
| No. 4 |
Glosses on the Summa Pisanella. |
| Manuscript | Napoli, BN V.H.33 (Passim) |
Text(s) – Early Printed Editions |
| No. 1 |
Consilium de monte pietatis. |
| Early Printed Editions |
Venezia, 1498. |
Literature |
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U. Nicolini, ‘Coppoli, Fortunato’, in DBI (1983) 28.670–75 (online). |
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S. Maiarelli and U. Nicolini, Il Monte dei poveri di Perugia. Periodo delle origini (1462–74) (Perugia 1962). |
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A. Ghinato, ‘Un propagatore dei Monti di Pietà del ‘400’, RSCI, 10 (1956) 193–211. |
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L. Wadding, Scriptores trium ordinum fratrum minorum (Roma 1908) 254. |
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M. Ciardini, Un “consilium” per il Monte di pietà di Firenze 1473) (Firenze 1905) 20–21. |
