Giulio Romano, Giovan Francesco Penni e la cappella di Santa Maria Maddalena nella SS. Trinità dei Monti: nuove osservazioni sulla decorazione e la sua committente. Epilogo

Over sixty years ago, Pio Pecchiai suggested that the patron of the chapel
of Saint Mary Magdalene in the SS. Trinità dei Monti in Rome might be the courtesan
Lucrezia Scanatoria, who had died shortly before 14 February 1522 when a house was purchased
with a sum of money she had bequeathed to the friars of the SS. Trinità. After identifying
Giovanni Giacomo Bucca as the notary who signed the act, the author carried out
a short search for the original document in the State Archives of Rome in the hope of finding
more information on the courtesan. Unfortunately, no paper regarding Lucrezia and
her bequest was found in Bucca’s volume of notarial acts for the year 1522, which includes
only a series of hardly readable drafts collected in chronological order.