Johannes Franciscus [Giovanni Francesco] Felicis [Felici] {Leo X-Pius IV}
Bass; Locri; earliest reference, bull of 5 January 1519; notarial list of 1522 ; receipt list of [ 1525 - 1526 ]; supplication list of [ 1525 - 1526 ]; mandati : July-August 1529 , April 1530 -April 1537 , June 1542 -May 1561 ; unpublished beneficial documents : RL 1443, fols. 194r-196r: bull dated 5 October 1524 ; RV 1385, fols. 212v-214v: bull dated 11 September 1531 ; see FREY for bulls dated 5 January 1519 and 28 January 1519 ; on 23 December 1556, Felicis was excused from ordinary daily service in the chapel on account of his age, a broken leg (or legs), and other infirmities; died on 19 April 1561 in Rome and was buried in St. Peter's, a funeral Mass was celebrated on 20 April; abbas in 1536 ; punctator in 1545 ; dean as of March 1548 .
Although the first document explicitely naming Felicis a member of the choir is dated 1519 , various DS lists compiled in later years [DS 2, fol. 94v, DS 6, fol. 24v] consistently report that he entered in 1518.
DOCUMENTS
DS 5
38v: entry dated 23 December 1556 [CASIMIRI 1937), p. 139]
Eodem die Rev. dus dominus episcopus Castrensis magister capelle et fere omnes cantores ordinarunt quod de cetero dominus Franciscus Felix decanus erit excusatus et non comparebit in divinis scilicet vesperis et missis et aliis officiis papalibus ob sius senectutem et tibiarum suarum ruptionem et aliarum infirmitatum etc. etc. et participabit de omnibus regalibus.
Ita tamen quod furturus decanus non gaudebit talibus exemptionibus.
DS 6
16v: entry dated 19 April 1561 [FREY, p. 118]
Hodie d. decanus recesit ab ac vita, fuit sepultus in basilica Sancti Petri.
16v: entry dated 20 April 1561 [FREY, p. 118]
Anellus non fuit cum aliis cantoribus in decantare libera me domine pro anima d. decani.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: CELANI, p. 92; FREY (1955): 181; FREY, Die Diarien, p. 118