page_title: Sebastiano Montelupi
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Sebastiano Montelupi / Life
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Dom Włoski (kamienica Montelupich). Rynek Główny nr 7, Kraków
context_page_description: Sebastiano Montelupi, was an Italian-born merchant and banker in Kraków, Poland, and Postmaster General of the Polish royal postal service under Sigismund II Augustus, Henry III of Poland, Anna Jagiellon, Stephen Báthory and Sigismund III Vasa.
context_section_description: Montelupi left Italy in 1536, settling in the Kingdom of Poland in 1557. He worked for the merchants and bankers Carlo and Bernardo Soderini until establishing himself independently in partnership with his younger brother Carlo.
  In 1567 he married the teenaged Urszula, daughter of doctor of medicine Wojciech Baza (died 1569), physician to the court. The year after the wedding the couple moved into a kamienica residence in the centre of Kraków, rebuilt in the Renaissance style. This building, known as the Italian House or Montelupi House, also served as the central post office. Urszula was to die without surviving issue on 12 July 1586, aged 35, after 19 years of marriage. At one point Francesco Pucci had consulted John Dee on Montelupi's behalf, to determine whether their childlessness could be due to witchcraft.
caption: Montelupi House (now a hostel) on the main square in Kraków
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