ABSTRACT
According to the 1320 Tavola delle possessioni, the early fourteenth-century village contained a considerable number of civic buildings (including a town hall, several other unspecified communal buildings, one public oven, and one public olive press) and at least one and possibly two charitable or public assistance bodies (one of which was the village hospital, referred to as the ‘ospedale di Sant’Angelo’, but which was possibly linked with another quite separate institution, known locally as the ‘casa della misericordia’). There were in addition two churches inside the walls: one, the parish church, with the titulus of San Michele and the other, a church with the titulus of San Pietro. Just outside the walls there was another church of undefined titulus that belonged to the church of San Pietro, and slightly further away from the urban fabric, there was yet another church with the titulus of San Pietro that was under the jurisdiction of the parish church of San Michele. Surviving records from a slightly later period make reference to at least two shops, one of which is described in 1328 as belonging to ‘magistri Bindi olim Bindi calzolarii’ (master Bindo son of the deceased Bindi, shoemaker).1 In a will drawn up on 5 June 1378 for Dominico di Giuntarello da Argiano further reference was made to the ‘calzolaio’ (shoemaker) of Sant’Angelo in Colle, as well as to the ‘buttigaio’, or ‘bottegaio’ (shopkeeper, possibly selling wine).2 A document surviving from the last years of the fourteenth century also refers to a speziale, or spice merchant cum grocer, Guido di Dominici di Gabriello.3
