FRANCESCO DATINI'S "CEPPO"

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Public no-profit institutions, was founded in 1410.
She possess the Datini's Archive, dumped in Public Archives of Prato.
When he died, Francesco di Marco Datini left his estate (over 100,000 florins) to a new public founding, the "Casa e Cieppo de' poveri di Francesco di Marco", sì che in perpetuo de' frutti d'esse si paschino e si nutrichino i poveri di Giesù Cristo. The founding, in niuno modo sottoposta alla Chiesa o ecclesiastici uffici o prelati ecclesiastici o altra persona ecclesiastica, should be managed by da quattro terrazzani, de' migliori e più onesti della terra di Prato, appointed by town council.

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The founding has her seat in the Datini's Palace. dove il mercante aveva abitato, e al cui mantenimento era tenuta a provvedere. At that time, together with this institution, called "Ceppo nuovo", there was another relief body in Prato called "Ceppo vecchio" founded in 1283. In 1512, after the sack, the two institutions were seriously in debt and, in 1537, they were closed. But, in 1545, Cosimo de' Medici reopened and unified them in a new body called "Casa Pia de' Ceppi".

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This institution is still existing and it has continuously carried out a relief activity. In the course of time, it has been concerned, even in a significant way, with the realization and maintenance of works of art, chiefly in the Church of San Francesco, which Datini particularly cared for. In the first ten-year periods of 1900, its typical intervention was to assist needy families by distributing the milk for the new-born children, and by taking care of the children in their very first years of infancy.
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