Relatione de firenza et di siena.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Fedeli, Vincenzo.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574.

Cosimo.

Florence (Italy)--History--1421-1737.

Florence (Italy).

Tuscany (Italy)--History--1434-1737.

Tuscany (Italy).

Venice (Italy)--Foreign relations--16th century.

Venice (Italy).

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1957.

Physical Description:

33 leaves : paper ; 306 x 215 (263 x 151) mm bound to 313 x 223 mm

Place of Publication:

[Florence], [between 1600 and 1699]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Copy, with some lacunae, of a Venetian ambassador's report from 1561 on the two states of Florence and Siena recently united under Duke Cosimo I (de' Medici), and on Cosimo himself. The last part discusses Venetian emigration to Pisa and the Tuscan coast, in relation to the establishment of a Greek church and land reclamation in the Maremma. See UPenn Ms. Codex 384 for another copy of this text.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from caption title (f. 1r).

Incipit: Il parlare di cose di stato et il referire alla presenza della serenità vestro fu sempre riserbato (f. 1r).

Foliation: Paper, iii (modern paper) + 33 + iii (modern paper); [1-33]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Binding: Modern boards.

Origin: Written in Florence in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

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. 172 (Ms. Lea 119).

Published in Relazione degli ambasciatori veneti al senato, ed. S. Segarizzi, (Bari: Laterza, 1916), v. 3

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 577

OCLC:

155966758