Home / News /The Curiosity

Share:

The Curiosity

Under the arcade, next to the entrance to the museum, there is a strange inscription:
"Against Ministers of the Directors of Mani Morte".
We understand that this is the site where they could be sent to the anonymous delinquencies of citizens to report abnormal situations or deemed incorrect caused by the appropriate officers (Ministers) who had to control the real estate belonging to religious institutions, such as churches and confraternities (so-called ' dead hands', which escaped public taxes on the succession as they remained forever, or at least for very long times of centuries, of the same ecclesiastical owner).
If the complaints proved to be well founded and involved the payment of fines, usually the proceeds were divided between the Municipality (1/3), the Official who collected the fine (1/3) and the delatore (1/3), for which could also be guaranteed anonymity.


Villa de Claricini 21

Casa Luis

Vignaiuoli TOTI

 Requests for Accommodations




We care about your privacy

We use cookies to improve the browsing experience on our site. With your consent we can use these technologies for the purposes indicated on the page privacy policy. You can freely give, refuse or withdraw your consent to all or some of the treatments by clicking on the button ''Customize'' always reachable through our cookies info.
Cookies are used to personalize advertisements. You can consent to the use of the technologies mentioned above by clicking on ''Accept and close '' or refuse their use by clicking on ''Continue without accept''