Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Amori, vita e morte di Carlo Gonzaga duca di Mantova, &c.

Other related names

• Galetti, Gustavo C, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 324
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580950
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580950

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

16--

Place

Italy

Summary

Account of the life of Carlo Gonzaga and his romance with Countess Margherita della Rovere.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title ( f. 1r). Title on spine label is rubbed off and illegible.
   
• Incipit (f. 1r): Gli errori de Principi bendre [?] fragili, ancorche naturli, non Lasciano di volare con cent' ali dall' uno all' altro Emisfero....
   
• This manuscript text might be the same as: Amori di Carlo Gonzaga e di Francesco de Medici. 1. Amori di Carlo Gonzaga, duca di Mantova, colla contessa Margherita della Rovere; presented by Bernardino Biondelli (Milano: Editori del politecnico, 1861).
   

Extent

130 leaves : 288 x 180 (273 x 106) mm. bound to 288 x 187 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (later paper) + 130 + i (later paper); [1-130]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Paper boards, probably later than the manuscript. Cover wearing at hinges. Some quires loose. Most leaves badly stained, possibly from smoke damage. Various other stains and smudges. Leaves were trimmed before binding; on some leaves there are possible traces of an original foliation that was trimmed away.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly in the library of Gust[avo?] C. Galletti of Florence (stamp, f. 1r).
   
• Accessioned, 1957.
   

Subjects topical

• Nobility--Italy--Biography

Genres

• Codices
• Biographies
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Stamp, f. 1r