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Acting as one: Common action, collectivity and property strategies in the case of a double-rooted Florentine kinship network
| The aim of this paper is to analyze how family property was inherited per linea masculina e femminina between relatives and how a kinship network of an international family worked which owned properties not only in Florence but in Hungary as well. Two branches of the Scolari clan were bound together by marriage ties and that of inheritance. The head of their kinship network, Pipo Spano did not have children to whom family name and property might have been transferred. Therefore Pipo signed a contract of inheritance with his brother, a distant cousin and one of his nephews for ensuring the transfer of the ownership of his castle, lands and the patronage of churches and monasteries to his relatives. Thanks to the abundant number of wills left behind by Pipo Spano, by his brother, Matteo and their relatives, the strategies of collective property, shared ownership and wealth control can be analyzed during time and one can follow how the properties of the three Scolari were inherited by the daughters of Matteo Scolari as part of their dowry and how their three distant cousins followed the steps of their uncles caring for the female members of the consorteria, procurating their dowries, leading the construction of the family sacral spaces committed by their uncles and how they inherited not only material goods but also managed to keep in hand the offices held by Pipo Spano at Sigismund of Luxemburg’s Hungarian Kingdom.
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