Hieronimus [Girolamo]  Tamagnis {Clement VII-Paul IV}

Tenor; Volterra [San Gimigniano]; admitted March  1528  [according to the list in DS 2, fol. 94v]; mandati: July-September 1529, April 1530- March  1560;  died  in Rome on 11 October  1559 after a short illness, a funeral Mass was celebrated in Santa Maria Sopra Minerva on 11 July  1560. The delay in celebrating the anniversary as well as the fact that Tamagnis remains in the mandati lists for five months after his death might have something to do with the unstable situation of the long sedia vacante that followed the death of Paul IV (which lasted from August-December 1559 and upset the normal financial arrangements between the singers and the Camera Apostolica) and also with Tamagnis’s debts (he apparently was buried in secret without ceremony in order to save expense).

 

DOCUMENTS

DS 5

152r: entry dated 11 October 1559 [CASIMIRI (1940), p. 92]

Ante missam fuit congregatio cantorum presente R. d. magistro capelle. In qua abbas retulit quod d. Hieronimus Tamagnis hesterno die acceperat extremam unctionem et egrebat multis et propterea sollicitaret pecuniam pannorum lugubrium. et daret eidem ratam, si sibi committeretur a congregatione. Ad quod R.dus d. magister respondit quod equum sibi videbatur eidem infirmo dari debere huiusmodi rataquamvis de rata d. Genesii Bulteti aliter disponebatur super quod aliqui dicebanat sic, ceteris vero tacentibus et nichial ad ea respondentibus.

152v: entry dated 11 October 1559 [CASIMIRI (1940), p. 93]

Hyeronimus obiit tempore completorii cuius anime Deus misereatur Amen.

152v: entry dated 12 October 1559 [CASIMIRI (1940), p. 93]

Post missam Abbas retulit in congregatione quod hieri dederat d. Hieronimo da Tammagnis iam mortuo scutum unum pro suis necessitatibus subveniendis ad computum sui crediti, pannorum lugubrium et salariorum sibi debitorum. Que congregatio ordinavit dicto abbati, quod nemini aliquid daret ex dicto credito, sine consensu collegii, attento quod dictus defunctus debet dare multa que solventur ex dicto cedito.

Item retulit dictus abbas quod mulieres habitantes in domo dicti defuncti dixerant sepelitent ipsum secrete noctis tempore, ad evitandam expensas et incommoda collegii, sed desiderabant ut tempore congruo, et collegio predicto bene viso decantaretur missa pro defunctis pro ipsius anima in Sancto Marco prout moris est pro cantoribus defunctis decantare.

 

154r: entry dated 20 November 1559 [CASIMIRI (1940), p. 95]

Post missam congregatis d. cantoribus etc. fecerunt electionem et nominationem benefitiorum vanactium per obitum q. d. Hieronimi de Tammagnis olim cantoris capelle Sedie apostolice etc. nominantes d. Petrum Paulum Caracenum ad parrochialiem ecclesiam Sancti Laurentii castri Sancti Geminiani. Et dominum Vincentium Vicomercatum ad plebaniam seu parrochialem ecclesiam Sancti Crescii in civitate florentina etc. Pompeius Capellus notarious camere fuit de his rogatus.

174v: entry dated 8 July 1560 [FREY, p. 55]

Post missam congregatio ordinavit decantari exequias quondam d. Hieronimi de Tammagnis die jovis proximo venturo.

175r: entry dated 11 July 1560 [FREY, p. 56]

Exequie d. Hieronimi de Tammagnis fuerunt celebrate in ecclesia Sancte Marie de Minerva.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: CELANI, p. 94; CASIMIRI; FREY, Die Diarien, pp. 55-56; 128