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• Hij is geboren op 15 juli 1526 in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.Bron 1
• Hij is overleden op 7 augustus 1564 in Lyon, France, hij was toen 38 jaar oud.Bron 1
• Een kind van Agostino Di Giovanni Balbani en Lucrezia Sbarra
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 8 februari 2019.

Gezin van Turco Balbani

Notities over Turco Balbani

of the plague

Excerpt from Bettye S. Rathbone:

"Turco Balbani, born 15 July 1526, was not yet eight years of age when
his father died, but remembered him with great love and respect as can be
seen from the addition he made to his father's biography some years
later. Under his uncle Francesco's guardianship, he attended school
until he was seventeen years of age and then entered the mercantile
business, going first to Antwerp in 1543 to work with his cousin Tommaso
di Francesco Balbani. Having caught quartan fever, he returned to Lucca
in 1546 to recover, but went back to Antwerp the following year
accompanied by Vincenzo Diodati.

"During these years he was in close contact with other Lucchese citizens
who were followers of the reformed religion which reinforced the
religious training he had received from his father at an early age.

"In January 1548 when his uncle Francesco organized the family company,
with the help of the Bernardini, into five branches (as described in the
article about Francesco Balbani), Turco was assigned with his cousin
Tommaso to manage the branch at Antwerp.

"In April 1549, he sent a proxy to Luccca to betroth himself to Zabetta
Micheli, the 8 1/2 year old daughter of Jacopo Micheli. They were
married on 28 January 1555. He spent the invervening [SIC] years in
Antwerp, Lyon and Lucca, working in various business arrangements.

"On 1 January 1555, the Balbani trading houses in all three cities were
reorganized, with Turco helping to manage one of the shops in Lucca.
After the death of Francesco Balbani in August 1556, his sons and nephews
began to venture out on their own and the family was less cohesive.
About this same time, Turco and his brothers Biagio and Bartolomeo
divided their patrimony which had been held in common. Their brother
Nicolas had left Lucca in May 1556.

"Turco was in Lyon from May 1556 to September 1558, and returned there
briefly in 1562, this last time because of financial difficulties. In
March 1564 he again left Lucca for Lyon, accompanied by Pompeo Diodati
and Arrigo Balbani, to manage a shop for his cousins Tommaso, Matteo and
Filippo Balbani. He intended to establish himself in Lyon and send for
his family, so that they might enjoy the pure exercise of religion, but
he died there on 7 August 1564 of the plague. His wife Zabetta lived
until 1609, and died in Lucca.

"Five letters written after he left Lucca in 1564 survive in the
Biblioteca governativa in Lucca. The first, directed to the reformed
Lucchese brethren, exhorts his fellow believers to firmness and faith.
The second, to his wife, encourages her to bear their separation with
courage; the third is to his children. The other two are letters of
sympathy addressed to two women who had been recently bereaved.

"During the last years of his life, Turco continued the record of the
Balbani family which his father had begun before his birth. The
manuscript passed to Turco's oldest son Cesare Balbani (1556-1621), who
is probably the one who took it to Geneva. It was subsequently copied
added to by Vincenzo Burlamacchi (1598-1682), adopted son of Cesare, and
placed in the Bibliotheque publique et universitaire in Geneva, with
other papers relating to the Italian colony in the city." [ Rathbone
inserts a note here. MLW, 12 September 1998. "The Balbani genealogy as
outlined in Galiffe, 'Notices,' vol. III, pp. 26-29, contains an
unfortunate genealogical error in that it lists Nicolas Balbani, minister
of the Italian Church of Geneva, as the son of Turco Balbani (who was
actually his brother), thus erroneously giving Nicolas the Micheli
lineage of Turco's wife. A careful examination of the dates involved
reveals the existence of an error but other sources and the records are
necessary to correct the mistake. The most useful of all of these is the
Balbni manuscript in which Agostino recorded the birthdates of his
children and to which Turco added some details, including his own
marriage date (1555) and the names of his own children: Laura, Cesare,
Catarina, Ottavio, Giambattista, Susanna and Sarra. He had no child
named Nicolas." ]2 SOUR S67
3 PAGE pages 46-47.

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