A CAPTAIN'S
WILL

LIST OF WORKS ON EXHIBITION

Bartolomeo Colleoni, the estate and the legacy

Bartolomeo Colleoni, summons some notaries to “have certain instruments of sale drawn up”

June 25, 1457 – Malpaga
ASBg, District Notarial Archive. Notarial records, b. 192

 

Cristoforo Moro, Doge of Venice, “Confirmatio pheudi Martinenghi, Urgnani, Colonii et additio Paluschi et Soltie domino capitaneo Bartolomeo Colliono pro se et heredibus quibuscumque ac libertati restando”
May 20, 1465 – Venice, Ducal Palace
ASBg, Martinengo Colleoni, b. 1, unit 2

 

Collection of privileges and exemptions from duties on the possessions of Bartolomeo Colleoni and his heirs Martinengo Colleoni
May 20, 1465 – September 7, 1536, [Bergamo]
Note: Authentic copies of documents taken from the registers of the Fiscal Chamber of Bergamo.
ASBg, Martinengo Colleoni, b. 1, unit 3

 

Will of Bartolomeo Colleoni drawn up by the notary Antonio di Andreolo ‘de Tirabuschis’
April 1467 – Bergamo, Vicinia of Sant’Agata, in the testator’s house “in the bedchamber”
ASBg, District Notarial Archive. Notarial records, b. 478

 

Revocation of the will of 1467
August 26, 1472 – Bergamo
ASBg, District Notarial Archive. Notarial records, b. 478

 

Cristoforo Moro, Doge of Venice, Letter to Tisbe Martinengo, wife of Bartolomeo Colleoni
November 23, 1467 – [Venice], Ducal Palace
ASBg, Martinengo Colleoni, b. 1, unit 4

 

Will of Bartolomeo Colleoni, notarial draft by Antonio di Andreolo ‘de Tirabuschis’
October 27, 1475 – Malpaga

 

Codicil to the will of Bartolomeo Colleoni, notarial draft by Antonio di Andreolo ‘de Tirabuschis’
October 30, 1475 – Malpaga
ASBg, District Notarial Archive. Notarial records, b. 478

Illuminated copy of the will of Bartolomeo Colleoni
October 27, 1475

 

Illuminated copy of the notarial draft drawn up by Antonio di Andreolo ‘de Tirabuschis’
Codicil to the will of Bartolomeo Colleoni – October 31, 1475

 

Document on loan from the Counts Colleoni and deposited at the State Archive of Brescia
ASBs, Archivio Martinengo dalle Palle, relics 8

 

Andrea Vendramin, Doge of Venice, “Passport for Count Alessandro Martinengo who accompanies the bride Countess home”
November 20, 1476 – [Venice], Ducal Palace
ASBg, Martinengo Colleoni, b. 1, unit 8

 

Pious Institution of Charity (Luogo Pio della Pietà)

“Loci pii venerandae pietatis institutio facta ab ill. Bartholomeo Coleono venetorum exercitus summo imp. anno 1466”
Bergamo, Comino Ventura, 1603
Volume on loan from the Luogo Pio della Pietà – Bartolomeo Colleoni Institute

 

“Institutio pii loci magnificae pietatis Bergomi (...)”
Bergamo, Marco Antonio Rubei, 1655
Volume on loan from the Luogo Pio della Pietà – Bartolomeo Colleoni Institute

 

Prefecture of the Department of the Serio and the Colleoni family, correspondence regarding the restoration of family rights in the representation of the Luogo Pio della Pietà with Colleoni family tree
May 24, 1803 – September 29, 1803 – Bergamo
ASBg, Prefecture of the Department of the Serio, b. 939

 

Luogo Pio della Pietà and the Imperial Royal Provincial Delegation, correspondence concerning the sale of ancient papers and registers belonging to the institution’s archive
December 14, 1839 – August 17, 1840 – Bergamo
ASBg, I.R. Provincial Delegation of Bergamo, b. 1365

 

Luogo Pio della Pietà, regulations regarding requirements for access and procedures for granting dowry subsidies
October 26, 1866 – August 30, 1869 – Bergamo
ASBg, Prefecture of Bergamo, Administrative Offices, b. 1607

 

Prefecture of Bergamo and Luogo Pio della Pietà – Colleoni Institute, correspondence on access to dowry subsidies
July 10, 1871 – September 23, 1873 – Bergamo
ASBg, Prefecture of Bergamo, Administrative Offices, b. 1607

 

Organic Statute of the Luogo Pio della Pietà – Bartolomeo Colleoni Institute
Printed booklet, Bergamo, Italian Institute of Graphic Arts, 1906
ASBg, Prefecture of Bergamo, Administrative Offices, b. 259

 

Regulations for employees and workers of the P.L. della Pietà – Bartolomeo Colleoni Institute in Bergamo
Printed booklet, Bergamo, Alessandro and Brothers Cattaneo Press, 1911
ASBg, Prefecture of Bergamo, Administrative Offices, b. 259

 

Convents of the Incoronata and Santa Chiara in Martinengo

Pope Sixtus IV, brief regarding the admission of friars and nuns into the convents of Santa Chiara and the Incoronata built by Captain Bartolomeo Colleoni in Martinengo
September 18, 1475 – Rome, at Saint Peter’s
ASBg, Martinengo Colleoni, b. 1, unit 7

 

Contract of sale of assets formerly belonging to the monastery of Santa Maria Incoronata: inventory of real estate, record of suppression with inventory of movable goods, “deductions from the inventory”
1807–1810 – Bergamo and Martinengo
ASBg, District Notarial Archive, Notarial records, b. 12673

 

Mayor of Martinengo, family status of the reformed friars of the Incoronata convent
February 17, 1810 – Martinengo
ASBg, Prefecture of the Department of the Serio, b. 814

 

Mayor of Martinengo, report of execution of the suppression of the convent of Santa Chiara
May 22, 1810 – Martinengo
ASBg, Prefecture of the Department of the Serio, b. 817

 

Sanctuary of the Basella in Urgnano

“Annals of the Church and Convent of St. Stephen and Bartholomew extracted by me, Fr. Clemente Zillioli, from all the books and papers of the said convent” – 1728
“Foundation of the Convent of the Basella” (pp. 87–93)
Paper volume, leather and cardboard binding, 510 × 370 mm
ASBg, Educational Institutes of Bergamo, Convent of San Bartolomeo, vol. 1

 

Andrea Vendramin, Doge of Venice, ducal decree on the inalienability of the property of Longhena, purchased by the convent of Santa Maria della Basella of Urgnano according to the testamentary wishes of Bartolomeo Colleoni, Captain General of the Serenissima
February 10, 1477 – [Venice], Ducal Palace
ASBg, Martinengo Colleoni, b. 1, unit 9

 

Tommaso da Brescia, Vicar General of the Dominican Order in both Lombardies, patent letter on the nullity of the bull of Pope Sixtus IV regarding the separation of the convent of Santa Maria della Basella of Urgnano from the convent of Santo Stefano of Bergamo
May 21, 1492 – Venice
ASBg, Martinengo Colleoni, b. 1, unit 16

 

Gioacchino Torriani, Master of the Dominican Order, “Order of the Father General to the fathers of the Basella to obey the prior of Bergamo”
September 15, 1495 – Venice
ASBg, Martinengo Colleoni, b. 1, unit 17

 

Louis XII of France, King of France and Duke of Milan, patent letter in favor of the friars of Santa Maria della Basella granting permission to transport products from their property of Longhena to the convent
April 30, 1510 – Milan
ASBg, Martinengo Colleoni, b. 1, unit 23

 

Giovanni Battista Cicada, Cardinal of San Clemente, judgment regarding the lawsuit brought by the convent of Santa Maria della Basella of Urgnano against the monastery of Santo Stefano of Bergamo concerning annexation and related assets
March 25, 1559 – Rome
ASBg, Martinengo Colleoni, b. 2, unit 43

 

Provincial Fathers of the Dominican Order in both Lombardies, patent letter regarding the union of the convents of Santa Maria della Basella of Urgnano and Santo Stefano of Bergamo under the name of Saints Mary and Stephen
April 20, 1562 – Forlì
ASBg, Martinengo Colleoni, b. 2, unit 46

 

Girolamo Priuli, Doge of Venice, ducal decree confirming the friars of the convent of Santa Maria della Basella of Urgnano in their exemptions and immunities, according to the testamentary provisions of Bartolomeo Colleoni
May 30, 1567 – [Venice], Ducal Palace
ASBg, Martinengo Colleoni, b. 2, unit 49

 

Artistic Works

Inventory of the assets of the Colleoni Chapel drawn up by the appointed presidents Leonardo de Passi and Guardino Colleoni, recorded by the notary Antonio fu Giacomo Solari
November 24, 1560 – Bergamo “in Capella Pietatis” (and following years 1562–1573)
ASBg, District Notarial Archive. Notarial records, b. 1486

 

Contract between Leonardo Agosti and Andrea Passi, presidents of the Pietà, and the painter Nicola Boneri for the execution of paintings in the Colleoni Chapel
December 27, 1552 – [Bergamo]
ASBg, District Notarial Archive. Notarial records, b. 1486

 

Giovanni Ambrogio dalla Torre and Lucano di Gazi, painters, appraisal of the paintings executed by Nicola Boneri in the Colleoni Chapel
October 29, 1555 – [Bergamo]
ASBg, District Notarial Archive. Notarial records, b. 1486

 

Contract between Count Antonio Colleoni, Orazio Conti di Calepio, Giovanni Battista Pietro Vailetti Salvagno, presidents of the Magnifica Pietà of Bergamo, and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo for the execution of paintings in the Colleoni Chapel
July 1733 – [Bergamo]
ASBg, District Notarial Archive. Notarial records, b. 7669

 

Imperial Royal Provincial Delegation, Luogo Pio della Pietà and Provincial Office of Public Works, correspondence regarding the transfer of the funerary monument of Medea, daughter of Bartolomeo Colleoni, from the sanctuary of the Basella of Urgnano to the Colleoni Chapel
October 2, 1841 – November 26, 1841 – Bergamo
ASBg, I.R. Provincial Delegation, b. 2179

 

Imperial Royal Provincial Delegation and Luogo Pio della Pietà, correspondence regarding the creation of a marble bust of Bartolomeo Colleoni
April 13, 1839 – Bergamo
ASBg, I.R. Provincial Delegation, b. 1365