Carlo i Francesco Ceroniowie w świetle nowych źródeł archiwalnych
Carlo and Francesco Ceroni in the Light of New Archival Sources

Summary/Abstract: In the second half of the 17th century a group of architects from Valsolda on Lake Lugano, northern Lombardy, came to Warsaw. Among them there were Carlo and Francesco Ceroni. These architects thanks to the investigation conducted by Prof. Mariusz Karpowicz have had their respective studies published. it was Prof. Karpowicz who found their birth certificates in the Albogasio inferiore Parish Archives, ascertained their family ties, found Francesco Ceroni’s contract for the works on the church of the Nuns of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, as well as Carlo Ceroni’s last will. The research performed by the author of the paper for the Dictionary of the Architects and Stonemasons in Warsaw in the 15th-18th Centuries brought about a number of biographic data. The preliminary research in the Albogasio inferiore Parish Archives revealed some source documents. Among the discovered ones there was Ceroni’s authorization given in 1711 to the Bellottis: Pietro Martiri and Carlo Antonio in the presence of the Municipality of Old Warsaw to represent him in contacts with the authorities of Valsolda, as well as a set of documents related to the financial conflict between Carlo Ceroni and Carlo Farina. The clash made Ceroni exclude the Farina family from his inheritance. Farina who secured the architect’s interests in Italy in 1693-99, accused Ceroni of not having repaid the whole of his debt. in a letter from Warsaw dated 16 May 1714 addressed to his cousin, Mayor of Valsolda, Ceroni submitted arguments demonstrating that not only had he repaid the debt, but had even suffered financial losses through the shared business with Carlo Farina. The very same letter reveals that the architect’s second daughter Lucia, contrary to the to-date ascertainment, lived to come of age and aged 31 became a nun (d. 1717). The preliminary research in the Como Notarial State Archives allowed to find Francesco Ceroni’s codicil and authorization issued by Ceroni’s heirs to Carlo Antonio Bay and Giuseppe Rachetti to recover debts from Zofia and Dominik Comboni.

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