Relazione dell'ambaschiatore Marco Foscarini fatta al S[erenissi]mo Senato di Venezia nel ritorno della sua solemne ambaschiata dalla Real Corte di Torino.
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
109 leaves : paper ; 231 x 180 (160 x 138) mm bound to 235 x 190 mm - Production:
- [Venice], 1743.
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
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- Other Title:
- Solevano, Ser[enissi]mo Principe, gli antichi maggiori dopo ritornati dalle corti straniere non solo rappresentare l'attuale stato di esse.
- Subjects:
- Venice (Republic : To 1797). Senato.
Ambassadors -- Italy -- Venice -- 18th century.
Ambassadors.
Italy -- History -- 18th century.
Italy.
History.
Savoy (France and Italy) -- History -- 18th century.
Turin (Italy) -- History -- 18th century.
Venice (Italy) -- Foreign relations -- 18th century.
Venice (Italy) -- History -- 18th century.
Italy -- Venice. - Form/Genre:
- Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European. - Language:
- Italian.
- Biography/History:
- Marco Foscarini eventually became Doge of Venice.
- Summary:
- Account by Marco Foscarini of his time as ambassador of Venice to the Royal Court of Turin.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Incipit: Solevano, Ser[enissi]mo Principe, gli antichi maggiori dopo ritornati dalle corte straniere non solo rappresentare l'attuale stato di esse ... (f. 2r).
Foliation: Paper, 109; [i], 1-107, [i]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, possibly that of Foscarini (f. 106r-v).
Binding: Contemporary parchment. Bifolium forming f. 67-68 is pulled completely loose from binding. Covers stained and very slightly warped. Various stains and smudges on leaves. Slight oxidation of ink on some leaves.
Origin: Written in Venice, after 1 March 1743 (f. 106r-v). - Penn Provenance:
- Accessioned, 1960.
- Cited in:
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 112 (Ms. Italian 95).
Antonibon, Francesca. Le relazioni a stampa di ambasciatori veneti (Padova: Tipografia del seminario, 1939), p. 114 - Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 338
- OCLC:
- 155964421