Carta lapidaria
Carta lapidaria
Latin text engraved on the wall of the bell tower of Negrar
La Carta lapidaria is carved in Roman capital letters on the south wall of the bell tower of the church of San Martino, then the township of Negrar is composed of 64 rows. There are some of contracts of 1166, where the Negrar pieve redeems an old annual census due to the citizen Veronese Ribaldino. From a translation by Castagnetti of 1984: “On May 3, 1166, in Verona, in the church of San Quirico, Bella, wife of Ribaldino del Fu Odelrico Sacheto, renounces to oppose the sale that her husband is about to complete. In the presence of many witnesses, including at least four judges, Ribaldino claims to have received from Guizardo, the archpriest of the church of San Martino di Negrar, and his friars – three priests, a deacon, two acolytes, a cleric – The sum of 220 lire of taxon for the sale of 13 plots in the Longazeria valley, Illas valley, and in other places. In the day and place and in the presence of the same witnesses, Ribaldino, with Bernardino and Enescalchino brothers , The sons of Guanimberto, the consanguineous, and the four sons of Capra, two present and two absent, all return to the bishop Ognibene the fief held by the bishopric church, consisting of lire 4, money 16 and moggi 9 of wine, c They received annually from the pier of Negrar. The bishop immediately resumed this census in exchange for the lands that the archpriest had purchased from Ribaldino, which the bishop lands now assigns to feud to Ribaldino and others. The last date, dated June 4, concerns the renunciation of the feud of the piety carried out by Sina, one of the sons of Capra, absent from the previous acts. “In essence, the script sanctions the renunciation of Ribaldino and the heirs of his rights to the municipality Of Negrar in exchange for others on the Val d’Illasi, with the mediation of the bishop of Verona.
