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Other Title:

Morte del Baron Troilo Savello, giustiziato in Roma, 1592

Subjects:

Christian martyrs -- Italy -- Rome (City) -- Biography.
Christian life -- Catholic authors.
Savelli, Troilo, -1592.
Christian martyrs.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Biographies (literary works)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Biographies.

Language:

Italian.

Contents:

1. f.1r-41v: Morte dell ... Troilo Savello [i.e. Savelli].
2. f.41v-47r: Breve examina de peccati da farsi nel tempo della morte (f. 41v) ... dal [primo] intitolata Studio de vera sapientia ... composto per Frat. Agostino di Vivo da Napoli ... in Brescia ... 160[0?] (f. 47r).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r); added title page in 19th-century hand: Morte del Baron Troilo Savello, giustiziato in Roma, 1592.
Foliation: Paper, 50; [1-50]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Quarter calf with marbled paper and [earlier?] label: Biondo, Suplicio del B.T. Savello.
Origin: Written in Rome, ca. 1600.
The trial (for murder) is mentioned by L. Pastor in his Geschichte der Päpste (11th ed., p. 619-620) where he refers to an Italian pamphlet on the execution. Biondo's text came out in several English and French editions, but neither the British Museum nor the Bibliothèque nationale (Paris) lists an Italian printed edition (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Conte Paolo Vimercati-Sorzi (bookplate, flyleaf i verso).
Appears in Hoepli catalogs 59 (1890), no. 491, and 83 (1893), no. 17.
Gift of Richard W. Foster, 1967.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800. Supplement A (2), The Library Chronicle 36, no. 1 (1970), p. 7 (Ms. Italian 229).
De Backer, A. and Sommervogel, C., Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, Vol. 1, col. 1546

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 454

OCLC:

155969586