In order to write Giovanni and Lusanna, Gene Brucker had to rely on primary historical sources, such as notarial transcripts and Florentine catasto records, which provide information created at the time and place, rather than speculative information created later on, but were also subject to the biases of those whose testimony and information were recorded at the time. The archiepiscopal court transcripts written by notary Ser Felippo Mazzei offered Brucker the most direct and complete witness testimony available surrounding the legal case of Giovanni and Lusanna's marriage (Brucker, 123). The court case was handled by the court of Archbishop Antoninus, which kept records of the case beginning with the papal breve, which requested the case brought up by Lusanna be investigated (Brucker, 39). While the case was primarily handled by Antoninus's vicar general, Messer Rafaello, and Ser Felippo, the archbishop himself was also present for witness testimony (Brucker, 39). Witness testimonies are the only first-hand evidence available surrounding the case, and, paired with Brucker's research on the social standards of Florentine society, they provide a clear idea of the attitudes at the time toward the relationship of Giovanni and Lusanna. …show more content…
This information provides insight to the validity of some of the witness testimony, information on who lived in whose household, and can provide significant dates, such as the deaths of family members. Brucker suggests, due to the timing of his marriage to the noble daughter, Marietta Rucellai, which lead to Lusanna's legal complaints, that the deaths of Giovanni's brother and father lead Giovanni to rethink his relationship with Lusanna and accept responsibility for the reputational welfare of his family (Brucker,
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The organization of Giovanni and Lusanna falls into place and helps the reader to have an understanding of the case, Giovanni and Lusanna, Florentine social classes, government records, and judicial process. Structuring the topic of social class towards the beginning of the book would have been acceptable, by introducing the couple and their social rank. However, placing where he decided opens up the discussion of Giovanni’s Medici connections and ultimately his annulment with Lusanna as a fitting ending to the case. The book starts out with how he found this case out in the Florentine archives. He moves into how we got this information on the case of Giovanni and Lusanna through records, notaries,documents, and various legal sources, as well as church sources sent from and to the Archbishop. The background and detailed
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Giovanni’s side of the story appears to be quite different than Lusanna’s. According to his procurator, Giovanni and Lusanna had been sexually involved since 1443, long before the death of Lusanna’s first husband. Numerous witnesses were brought forth, saying they had seen Giovanni and Lusanna together for years. They said that Lusanna had a reputation as a “woman of low moral character” (Brucker, p. 27). Giovanni’s procurator stated that although they had a romantic relationship, it did not make sense for Giovanni to have married someone of such a low class and reputation. In the end, Archbishop Antonius ruled in favor of Lusanna. However, later the case was presented to ecclesiastical courts in Rome, and although the records of that trial are not as clear, it appears that the judge ruled in favor of Giovanni.
Through the study of the records of courts, both secular and ecclesiastical, which exists in thousands of European and American archives and libraries, a patient and careful researcher can reconstruct particular images of “the world we have lost” and of the people who inhabited that world. From this vast, largely untapped repository of judicial records, Gene Brucker uses the notarial protocols of Ser Filippo Mazzei, which contains the transcripts of the litigation in the archiepiscopal court and the catasto records, which provides information about Florentine households, to piece together the dossier of Giovanni and Lusanna. The story of Giovanni and Lusanna explores the love and marriage in renaissance Florence and uncovers the gradation of the city’s social hierarchy and the role of women in society.
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Giovanni and Lusanna is a micro-history of high born Giovani being taken to court by lower born Lusanna as she claimed that he married her in secret. She believed that her future security and honor was at risk as Giovanni married a younger high born woman after his father and brother died. This micro-history shows that social standing, honor, and marriage during Renaissance Florence.
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