Jerome Frescobaldi

Jerome, Hieronimo, or Girolamo Frescobaldi (1444–1517) was an Italian financier and textile merchant based in Bruges. He supplied luxury goods to the Scottish court and was described as a "very good friend to the King of Scots".[1] The Frescobaldi family and company, based in Florence, were involved in artistic commissions in England and Scotland.[2] Jerome Frescobaldi was involved in the wool trade with Tommaso Portinari and his sons,[3] and marketed spices obtained by Portuguese traders.[4]

  1. ^ Aonghus McKechnie, 'Court and courtier architecture', Richard D. Oram & Geoffrey Stell, Lordship and Architecture in Medieval and Renaissance Scotland (Birlinn, 2005).
  2. ^ Eleri Lynn, Tudor Textiles (Yale, 2020), p. 14.
  3. ^ Giovanni Francesco Pagnini, Della decima e di varie altre gravezze imposte dal comune di Firenze, vol. 1 (Lisbona & Lucca, 1765), pp. 297-302.
  4. ^ Henry de Vocht, 'Jerome De Busleyden', Humanistica Lovaniensia (Brepols, 1950), p. 345.