Details

Other Title:

Memor[ie] de Guisa.
Infelice affare, che mio malgrado non si è che troppo diffuso per tutta Europa.

Subjects:

Masaniello, 1620-1647.
Naples (Kingdom) -- History -- Spanish rule, 1442-1707.
Naples (Kingdom).
History.
Naples (Italy) -- History -- 1503-1734.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Histories.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian, translated from French by Pietro Guzzotti.

Summary:

Account of events during the uprising in Naples against Spanish rule led by Masaniello (Tommaso Aniello) in the summer of 1647.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. i recto).
Title on spine label: Memor[ie] de Guisa.
Incipit (f. 1r): Un'infelice affare, che mio malgrado non si è che troppo diffuso per tutta Europa ...
The title page has the date notation "1647 e 1648," possibly in a different hand; but it is unclear what these dates indicate: when the events described in the text took place, when the original French text was written, when the Italian translation was made, or when this manuscript was written.
Foliation: Paper, 260; [ii], 1-257, [i]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Script: Written in what appears to be in a single cursive hand. Occasional marginalia also appear to be in the same hand.
Binding: Contemporary calf with gilded design on spine. Cover worn at edges and spine. Oxidation of ink, very bad on some folios.
Origin: Written in Italy after 1647.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1952.

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 96).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 339

Contributor:

Guzzotti, Pietro, translator.

OCLC:

155964423