Details

Subjects:

Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574.
Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737.
Tuscany (Italy) -- History -- 1434-1737.
Venice (Italy) -- Foreign relations -- 16th century.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Copy, with some lacunae, of a Venetian ambassador's report from 1561 on the two states of Florence and Siena recently united under Duke Cosimo I (de' Medici), and on Cosimo himself. The last part discusses Venetian emigration to Pisa and the Tuscan coast, in relation to the establishment of a Greek church and land reclamation in the Maremma. See UPenn Ms. Codex 384 for another copy of this text.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Incipit: Il parlare di cose di stato et il referire alla presenza della serenità vestro fu sempre riserbato (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, iii (modern paper) + 33 + iii (modern paper); [1-33]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Written in Florence in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1957.

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. 172 (Ms. Lea 119).
Published in Relazione degli ambasciatori veneti al senato, ed. S. Segarizzi, (Bari: Laterza, 1916), v. 3

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 577

OCLC:

155966758