Sarella, widow of Giuseppe Tedeschi: Rome, 1551

Sarella, widow of Giuseppe Tedeschi: Rome, 1551

Sarella, widow of Giuseppe Tedeschi

The widow Sarella, who Kenneth Stow considers to be reasonably well off, testates while in the house of her daughter Consola's father-in-law. The will is taken by the Jewish notary Yahudah (Leone) Piattelli in Hebrew. This is pre-Ghetto text.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION FROM KENNETH STOW:

Yehudah (Leone) Piattelli goes to the house of Shem Tov Amron (Omron), where he found Sarella, widow of q.m Giuseppe Tedeschi (Aschenazi); she leaves 75 sc. as a gift to her daughter Cila wife of Joel Tedeschi (Aschenazi), who lives in Mantova; the money now is in the hands of her daughter Consola, wife of Yehudah di Shem Tov Amron (Omron); she asks Salomone di Abramo Tedeschi (Aschenazi), Moise di Menachem di Collevecchio and Casher di Meshullam Tedeschi (Aschenazi) to make sure Consola gives the money; she wills her daughter Consola 100 sc. more; Consola has to pay 1.50 sc. to the Scola dei Tedeschi and 0.5 sc. to the Ghemiluth Hasadim, in addition to various other small gifts.

Rome, Italy

30 June 1551

Archivio Storico Capitolino, Rome

ASC, F.7, l.1, f.206v. 1551-06-30

See Kenneth Stow, The Jews in Rome II (Leiden: Brill, 1997), no. 1138.

Hebrew

Italy

Kenneth Stow