Petrus [Pietro]  Bartholomuccio [Bartoluccio, de Sancto Germano] {Paul III-Clement VIII}

Soprano; diocese unclear (from Picinisco, in the Abruzzi, according to his will); admitted 26 October 1547, along with Agnello de Antignano, by a vote of 11 out of 21;  mandati : November  1547 -October  1571 ; in list of  1573 ; December  1580 -November  1586 ; in lists of  1587 ,  1588 ,  1589 ,  1590 ; on 8 January  1573 , Bartholomuccio (after 25 years in the choir) asked permission to be exempted from the regular services; in the notes for a possible reform of the choir made in  1573 , Bartholomuccio and his soprano colleague Antignano were declared to have terrible voices but to be useful because they were priests, had seniority, and took responsibility for leadership of the choir ["questi fanno soprano et hanno la voce più presta rauca et disona che altrimenti, ma sono molto utili per esser sacerdoti, et sempre uno di loro ordina il choro, et sono di vecchi che stiano in capella"—Document 1.19]; became dean on the death of  Episcopis  on 23 April  1584 ; on 16 May 1590, he promulgated a will in which he asked to be buried in San Gregorio and left his property in Picinisco to the children of his brother Bartolomeo and other property to Cola and Domenico Maccari (see SPAGNUOLO, Doc. 68);  died  on 14 December  1599  in Rome and was buried in San Gregorio.

DOCUMENTS

DS 3

35r: entry dated 26 October 1547 [CASIMIRI (1934), p. 305]

See Antignano.

DS 10

16r: entry dated 8 January 1573

BIBLIOGRAPHY:  CASIMIRI ;  FREY, Die Diarien, p. 136; SHERR, "Competence and Incompetence;" SPAGNUOLO, Vera Vita. "Gli atti notarile dell’Archivio di Stato di Roma. Saggio di spoglio sistematico: l’anno 1590." In ANTOLINI, Bianca Maria, MORELLI, Arnaldo, and SPAGNUOLO, Vita Vera, eds. La musica a Roma attraverso le fonti d’archivio (Florence, 1994), pp. 19-66.