Details

Subjects:

Politics and government.
Sciacca (Italy) -- History.
Italy -- Sicily -- Politics and government -- 1282-1870.
Italy -- Sicily.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Purports to be the first critical account, comparing documentary testimony and oral tradition, of the 1529 armed conspiracy of Sigismondo di Luna, Conte di Calzabillotta, and the majority of the nobility of Sciacca, Sicily, against Giacomo Perollo, barone di Pandolfina. While the Luna-Perollo feud was a hundred years old, the 1529 conflict seemed to have elements of anti-Spanish revolt, and Luna and his allies were punished accordingly. The last paragraph suggests that this account was largely taken from an earlier version by Padre F. Angelo Candela of the Fransciscan order.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Paper, ii (19th-century paper) + 48 + ii (19th-century paper); [1-48]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: 19th-century[?] boards.
Origin: Written in Italy in 1795.

Penn Provenance:

Bookplate of Guilford College; collection of Frederick North, Earl of Guilford.
Formerly in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 5756.
Purchased, 1968.

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. 10 (Ms. Italian 240).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 464.

Contributor:

North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

OCLC:

155969808

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