Details

Subjects:

Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574.
Knights of Malta -- Early works to 1800.
Knights of Malta.
Ambassadors -- Italy -- Venice -- 16th century.
Ambassadors.
Florence (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 1421-1737.
Venice (Italy) -- Foreign relations -- Italy -- Florence.
Florence (Italy) -- Foreign relations -- Italy -- Venice.
Switzerland -- Foreign relations.
Switzerland.
International relations.
Italy -- Venice.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Reports of Venetian ambassadors, the first is a report on the two states of Florence and Siena recently united under Duke Cosimo I (de' Medici), and on Cosimo himself (there is an abridged version of item 1 in UPenn Ms. Codex 577; and another version of item 3 in Ms. Codex 551).

Contents:

1. f. 1r-101r: Relatione di...Vincenzo Fidele ritornato ambasciatore.
2. f.102r-213r: Relatione dell'institutione, privilegi, et oblighi della religione dei cavalieri di Rodi, hoggi di Malta, in forma di dialogo (Mons. Giustiniano, Com. Cambiano, Mons. Girolamo Quirini).
3. f.214r-240r: Relatione et sommario della forma et modo de negotiare con Swizzeri et Grisoni.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch); name is spelled Fidele in manuscript, Fedeli in reference sources.
Foliation: Paper, ii (contemporary paper) + 242 + ii (contemporary paper); [1-242]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 16-18 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script by several hands.
Binding: Contemporary vellum.
Origin: Written in Italy in the late 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Renzo Rizzi (Milan), 1961.

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. 121 (Ms. Italian 143).
Cf. F. Antonibon, Le relazioni a stampa di ambasciatori Veneti (Padua, 1939), p. 44.
Item 1 is published in Relazione degli ambasciatori veneti al senato, ed. S. Segarizzi (Bari: Laterza, 1916), v. 3.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 384

OCLC:

155966839