Sul manoscritto testamentario di Bartolomeo Berrecci: uno sguardo storico-linguistico

: The following article presents the analysis of the last will of the most famous Renaissance sculptor and architect in Poland: the Tuscan Bartolomeo Berrecci, creator of the Sigismund Chapel in the Wawel Cathedral in Kraków. After a brief historical-cultural introduction where the artist’s arrival in Poland and his function at the court of King Sigismund I the Old are presented, the transcription of the artist’s testament, written by his own hand in the Italian language and recorded in the archives of the ancient city of Kazimierz, is included, followed by an in-depth analysis. At first, the analysis will concentrate on content and structure: the characters and properties mentioned in the document will be presented along with the document’s form. Subsequently, morphological and terminological analyses will be carried out, which will confirm the use of the Florentine language of the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries, as well as the presence of specific terms related to the Polish reality in which the artist lived for almost 20 years, giving the document historical and linguistic value, in addition to classic values that are spiritual and notarial.