Relatione di Messer Vincenzo Fidele ritornato ambasciatore per la serenissima signoria di Venetia dal Signor Duca di Fiorenza, del Conte Filippo Maria Anguissola.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Fedeli, Vincenzo.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

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

Knights of Malta--Early works to 1800.

Knights of Malta.

Ambassadors--Italy--Venice--16th century.

Ambassadors.

Florence (Italy)--Politics and government--1421-1737.

Venice (Italy)--Foreign relations--Italy--Florence.

Florence (Italy)--Foreign relations--Italy--Venice.

Switzerland--Foreign relations.

Switzerland.

International relations.

Italy--Venice.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Renzo Rizzi (Milan), 1961.

Physical Description:

242 leaves : paper ; 254 x 191 (201 x 118) mm bound to 262 x 195 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], 1561.

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Reports of Venetian ambassadors, the first is a report on the two states of Florence and Siena recently united under Duke Cosimo I (de' Medici), and on Cosimo himself (there is an abridged version of item 1 in UPenn Ms. Codex 577; and another version of item 3 in Ms. Codex 551).

Contents:

1. f. 1r-101r: Relatione di...Vincenzo Fidele ritornato ambasciatore.

2. f.102r-213r: Relatione dell'institutione, privilegi, et oblighi della religione dei cavalieri di Rodi, hoggi di Malta, in forma di dialogo (Mons. Giustiniano, Com. Cambiano, Mons. Girolamo Quirini).

3. f.214r-240r: Relatione et sommario della forma et modo de negotiare con Swizzeri et Grisoni.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch); name is spelled Fidele in manuscript, Fedeli in reference sources.

Foliation: Paper, ii (contemporary paper) + 242 + ii (contemporary paper); [1-242]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 16-18 long lines.

Script: Written in a cursive script by several hands.

Binding: Contemporary vellum.

Origin: Written in Italy in the late 16th 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. 121 (Ms. Italian 143).

Cf. F. Antonibon, Le relazioni a stampa di ambasciatori Veneti (Padua, 1939), p. 44.

Item 1 is published in Relazione degli ambasciatori veneti al senato, ed. S. Segarizzi (Bari: Laterza, 1916), v. 3.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 384

OCLC:

155966839