Details

Subjects:

Italian literature -- 17th century.
Italian literature.
Italian literature -- 18th century.
Italian poetry -- 17th century.
Italian poetry.
Italian poetry -- 18th century.
Italian drama -- 18th century.
Italian drama.
Lombardy (Italy) -- Guastalla.
Lombardy (Italy) -- History -- Spanish rule, 1535-1714.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Poems.
Letters.
Epitaphs.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian and Latin.

Summary:

A personal compilation by Vattielli of occasional poetry circulating in Lombardy from ca. the 1680s through at least 1703. The poems deal with both large historical events like the siege of Vienna or the election of Pope Clement XI and personal events among the Lombard nobility, occasionally there seems to be the summary of a play he's seen, "La regina d'Italia" (f. 87) or a personal comment on one of the poems (f. 65, 96v). Vattielli seems to be connected with the Duke of Mantua, perhaps as a dependent or an official of some kind. Sonnets, elegies, songs, burlesque poems, etc., as well as a few items in prose, dealing primarily with the Turks and the controversy over the Spanish succession, but including odes on the birth of Antonio Ferdinando Gonzaga, Anna Isabella Gonzaga, and others. Names of authors given: Antonio Panini, Giovanni Battista Neri, Giacomo Antonio Bergamori, Giovanni Antonio Vastamiglio, Vincenzo Marescotti, etc. Among persons addressed are Emperor Leopold I, Pope Innocent XI, King John III Sobieski, Princess Maria Victoria and Prince Vincenzo Gonzaga, King Louis XIV, Pope Clement XI, etc.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from f. 1r with "Questo libro è me Giovanni Vattielli, comprato li 23 octobre 1696 per soldi 22" and "Volendovi copiare vari sonetti per mio passatempo in Guastalla."
Foliation: Paper, 96; [1-96]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by one hand.
Decoration: Coat of arms of Carlo Vassalli in pen and ink (f. 80v).
Binding: 18th-century boards; motto "parcere subiectis, debelare superbos" inside front cover.
Origin: Written in Italy, 1683-1703.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Julia G. Haney, 1964.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia). Supplement A (2), The Library Chronicle 36, no. 1 (1970), p. 3-4 (Ms. Italian 213).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 438

OCLC:

155969259