Details

Subjects:

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558.
Piccolomini, Giovanni d'Andrea di Nanni Todeschini, 1475-1537.
Piccolomini, Alessandro.
Piccolomini, Antonio Maria d'Enea.
Inheritance and succession -- Italy.
Inheritance and succession.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

Legal documents.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

In Italian, with two leaves in Latin.

Summary:

Legal brief written Feb. 7, 1538 (dated Feb. 7, 1537 in manuscript), by Matteo d'Alessandro d'Andrea Todeschini Piccolomini in support of a claim to the estate of Giovanni Piccolomini, the late cardinal and archbishop of Siena, and his brother Alessandro Piccolomini. Matteo's cousin Antonio Maria d'Enea Piccolomini, of the Montemarciano branch of the Piccolomini family, recognizes here the legitimacy of Matteo, who was legitimized by Emperor Charles V, despite having been born out of wedlock.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Frederick North, Earl of Guilford, and Sir Thomas Phillipps (part of ms. 6067).

Cited in:

From collection 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. 163 (Ms. Lea 71).

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

475716020