El Masaniello : o discursos narrativos de la sublevacion de Napoles / por el señor Gabriel Fontoli.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Fontoli, Gabriel.

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Masaniello, 1620-1647.

Masaniello.

Naples (Italy)--History--1503-1734.

Naples (Italy).

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Spanish.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Jacques Rosenthal Buch- und Kunstantiquariat, Munich, 1959.

Physical Description:

64 leaves : paper ; 117 x 153 (187 x 101) mm bound to 224 x 164 mm

Production:

[Spain], [1650?]

Other Title:

Suele la esperiencia mostrarnos.

Language Note:

Spanish; translated from the Italian original by Padre Alonso de Flores, S.J., at the command of the Duke of Arcos (note, f. i recto, 1r).

Summary:

Account of the popular uprising against Spanish rule in Naples on 7 July, 1647, led by the fisherman Tommaso Aniello, called Masaniello.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from caption title (f. 1r).

Incipit: Suele la esperiencia mostrarnos ... (f. 1r).

Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 64 + i (modern paper); [i], 1-60, [61-63]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with corrections throughout, probably in the hand of the translator. Title page (f. i recto) is written in a different hand and appears to be a later addition.

Binding: Modern boards. Stains. Some cracking and splitting of the leaves at the edges. Paper slightly brittle. A few holes.

Origin: Written in Spain, ca. 1650.

The Duke of Arcos, at whose command Fr. Flores made this translation, was the Spanish viceroy in Naples.

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. 137 (Ms. Spanish 4).

Publications about:

This work does not appear ever to have been published.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 142

OCLC:

155962660