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Raccolta di lettere della segretaria di stato, scritte à Monsig. Arcivescovo Tomaso Vidoni in tempo che era in Malta inquisitore apostolico, e poi nunzio a Firenze dal MDCLXXXVI fino al MDCXCVII.

Author/Creator:
Vidoni, Tommaso.
Publication:
1686-1697.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
441, 398 leaves : paper ; volume 1: 262 x 196 mm bound to 274 x 221 mm ; volume 2: 261 x 196 mm bound to 273 x 206 mm
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Subjects:
Spada, Fabrizio, 1643-1717.
Ottoboni, Pietro, 1667-1740.
Cibo, Alderano, 1613-1700.
Papal nuncios -- Italy -- Correspondence.
Papal courts -- Foreign relations -- France.
Austro-Turkish War, 1683-1699.
History.
Papal courts.
International relations.
Papal nuncios.
Italy -- History -- 17th century -- Sources.
Avignon (France) -- History -- 17th century.
Rome (Italy) -- History -- 17th century.
Malta -- History -- 1530-1798.
Malta.
Tuscany (Italy) -- History.
Venice (Italy) -- History -- Turkish Wars, 17th century.
Cibo, Alderano, 1613-1700 -- Correspondence.
Ottoboni, Pietro, 1667-1740 -- Correspondence.
Spada, Fabrizio, 1643-1717 -- Correspondence.
Italy.
France.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Letters.
Papal briefs.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.
Correspondence.
Personal correspondence.
Language:
Italian, with some official dispatches in Latin.
Summary:
Letters primarily consist of acknowledgments of dispatches received from Tomaso Vidoni by the successive secretaries of state (Cardinal Alderano Cybo, Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, Cardinal Spada) of Popes Innocent XI, Alexander VIII, and Innocent XII. Interleaved with the letters are occasional dispatches elaborating on requests made of Vidoni, the apostolic inquisitor of Malta (1686-1689) and later nuncio of Florence (1690-1697). These detail events in Rome, the illnesses and deaths of Innocent XI and Alexander VIII and the conclaves electing their successors, as well as crime and public disorder in Rome. Some letters contain considerable detail on French affairs, including altercations with the Marquis of Lavardin, ambassador of Louis XIV and subject of a papal interdict, and tensions over the French occupation of Avignon in 1688. Letters related to Vidoni's offices in Malta and Florence discuss plagues, crime, the conduct of clergy and convents, vacancies in ecclesiastical offices, clerical tax exemptions, the revenues of given offices, and the activities of corsairs in the Mediterranean. Several letters concern Cosimo III, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, and his private devotions, particularly his promotion of the cult of Blessed Bernardo Tolomei; others relate to broader Tuscan politics, particularly Tuscany's reluctant involvement in the Venetian campaign against the Turks. There are a few letters from other correspondents including Carlo Agosto Fa[b]roni, an official of the Holy See; and Giuseppe Vendramin , apostolic minister in Venice. There are a few letters from other correspondents including Carlo Agosto Fa[b]roni, an official of the Holy See; and Giuseppe Vendramin , apostolic minister in Venice.
Contents:
Volume 1. 1. Letters from Cardinal Cybo in Rome to Tomaso Vidoni in Malta dated 13 July 1686 through 6 August 1689.
2. Letters from Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni in Rome to Vidoni in Malta, Messina, and Florence dated 8 October 1689 to 20 January 1691 including an item in cipher [6 January 1691].
3. Documents [in Latin] with seals signed Guido Passioneus, sec., 2 February 1691 to 9 July 1691 [during the interregnum].
4. Letters from Cardinal Spada in Rome to Vidoni in Florence dated 21 July 1691 to 27 December 1692.
5. Two letters from Cosimo III, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, to Vidoni, 9 February 1692 and 18 March 1692.
Volume 2. Letters from Cardinal Spada in Rome to Vidoni in Florence dated 3 January 1693 through 7 December 1697, with a few letters from other correspondents.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from decorated title page for volume 1.
Foliation: V.1: Paper, 441; [ii, 1-439]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; V.2: Paper, 398; [i, 1-397]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by multiple hands.
Binding: Contemporary parchment.
Origin: Written mostly in Rome, some in Malta, in Florence, and in Venice.
Penn Provenance:
Formerly owned by Joseph Marchio Vidonus Cremonensis (signature, inside upper cover of both volumes).
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. 163-164 (Ms. Lea 75 Italian).
Cited as:
UPenn. Ms. Codex 545
Contributor:
Cybo, Alderano, Cardinal, 1613-1700.
Ottoboni, Pietro, 1667-1740.
Spada, Fabrizio, Cardinal, 1643-1717.
Cosimo III, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1642-1723.
OCLC:
155965962