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Correspondence, 1512-1523.
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Pio, Alberto, 1475-1531.
- Language:
- Italian
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Ambassadors--Holy Roman Empire.
- Ambassadors.
- Holy Roman Empire--Foreign relations.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Italian.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Physical Description:
- 125 items (144 leaves)
- Place of Publication:
- 1512-1523.
- Language Note:
- In Latin (letters to Maximilian I and his officials) and Italian.
- Biography/History:
- Conte di Carpi; ambassador of Emperor Maximilian I to the papal court.
- Summary:
- A collection of letters dealing with foreign affairs of countries such as Lombardy, Spain, England, Flanders, and Naples, showing strong anti-French and anti-Venetian feeling. Half of the letters and memoranda are from Alberto Pio to Maximilian I or his officials; the other half are letters to Alberto Pio from, in order, Lionello Pio (his brother, 13 letters), Giovanni Matteo Giberti (bishop of Verona, 8 letters), Lorenzo Compeggi (1 letter), Andrea de Burgo (13 letters), Federico Fregoso (archbishop of Salerno, 1 letter), Leone Grilinzone (8 letters), Giovanni Battista Spinello (5 letters), and Jacopo Bannissi (20 letters). A few of the letters are written in code.
- Notes:
- A contemporary or slightly later folder gives the title Lettere latine di Alberto Pio Conte di Carpi, Ambasciatore della Maestà Cesarea in Roma, which applies only to the first half of the collection.
- A majority of the leaves are bifolia. Many letters have seals or remnants of seals, and some have holes where seals were cut out.
- Cited in:
- Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 : Supplement A (2). The Library Chronicle XXXVI (1970), p. 21 (Ms. Lea 414).
- Contains:
- Lettere latine di Alberto Pio Conte di Carpi, Ambasciatore della Maestà Cesarea in Roma.
- OCLC:
- 155932812
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