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Title

Miscellanea storica di Guastalla

Authors

• Torelli family
• Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558
• Aliprandi, Nicolao
• Bollati, Andreas de
• De' Medici, Geronimo
• Gonzaga, Ferrante, 1507-1557
• Landriani, Giovanni Battista
• Malatesta, Carlo
• Torelli, Lodovica, Countess
• Torelli, Marcantonio, Count
• Torelli, Paolo, Count
• Trivulzio family

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1460
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944793163503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/318327599
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4479316

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with some Italian

Origin

Date

1492-1561, 1725

Place

Italy

Summary

A collection of documents in three volumes, mostly written in Latin but with some in Italian, all in paper except for v. 3, f. 36-41. Almost all originals or contemporary copies. The dates on the documents range from 1492 to 1561, with one document copied in 1725. Most documents notarized, some with seals or the remnants of seals. Much of the content highlights the great controversy among the Torelli (also spelled Taurelli) family about the rights to the town of Guastalla and its sale to Ferrante Gonzaga. Many of the documents outline the main feud between Count Paolo Torelli, who wished to keep Guastalla, and Count Marcantonio Torelli, who wished for Countess Lodovica Torelli to sell it. Volume 1 contains descriptions of the property in Guastalla for Renato Trivulzio in 1492 (f. 1r-19v); examination of witnesses in the lawsuit of Marcantonio (Marcus Antonius) Torelli against Paolo Torelli and his mother, Damigella di Giovanni Trivulzio, dated 1525 (f. 20r-56v); deposition on behalf of Paolo Torelli and his mother concerning the will of his father, Francesco Torelli, dated 1521 (f. 60r-63v); testimony on behalf of Marcantonio Torelli, in Mantua, dated 1525 (f. 67r-107v); summary of the case dated 1531 (f. 115r-380v). Volume 2 contains testimony on behalf of Marcantonio Torelli against Paolo Torelli, dated 1531 (f. 3r-237r); judgment by the ducal senator and doctor Alexander Amonius in Mantua in favor of Count Marcantonio Torelli, dated 1532 (f. 239r-241v); various copies of judgments based upon that of Alexander Amonius' for Marcantonio Torelli in Milan, dated 1515-1534, some notarized (f. 243r-250r); petition in Italian from Paolo Torelli to a delegate of the Papal state, undated (f. 266r-v); petition to Charles V concerning the purchase of Guastalla by Ferrante Gonzaga, undated (f. 268r-269v); petition to Charles V by Marcantonio Torelli, undated (f. 270r); submission and summary of the controversy to Charles V, undated (f. 272r). Volume 3 contains a sale of property at Guastalla by the Torelli family to Redulfo (or Rodolfo) Gonzaga, dated 1538 (f. 1r-15r); license for sale of Guastalla to Ferrante Gonzaga by Charles V, dated 1539, with seal, signed by R. Quadrius (f. 17r-v); copy of sales agreement of 1539 in Italian between Lodovica Torelli and Ferrante Gonzaga, copied in 1725 (f. 18r-34v); sales agreement between Marcantonio Torelli and Ferrante Gonzaga, dated 1546, on vellum (f. 36r-41v); further sales agreements in Italian before Giovanni Battista Landriani by various members of the Torelli family, dated 1561 (f. 42r-59r); statements favoring claims of Marcantonio Torelli by Nicolao Aliprandi, one with seal, undated but ca. 1531 (f. 61r- 86v); testimonies supporting Marcantonio Torelli by Carlo Malatesta, Geronimo de Medici, and others (f. 90r-192r). All volumes contain some marginal notes in Italian. Many notarized by Andreas de Bollati.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Two documents, folded and laid in, are now unfolded and filed in Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Large) under Bremlen and Torelli.
   
• Title from spine.
   

Extent

3 volumes (382, 275, 196 leaves) : bound to 300 x 210 mm (v. 1 & 2); 330 x 220 (v. 3)

Foliation

v.1: Paper, i + 380 + i; [i], [1-380]; v. 2: Paper, i + 273 + i; [1-273]; v. 3: Paper, 195 + i; [1-195]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Many documents have contemporary foliation of their own. All references are to modern foliation.

Support

Parchment and paper

Binding

Half calf (Zacour-Hirsch), 18th-century or later.

Decoration

Genealogical tables of the Torelli family (v. 3, f. 60v, 78v, 134v).

Script

Written in multiple cursive hands.

Subjects topical

• Real property--Italy--15th century
• Real property--Italy--16th century
• Law--Italy--History

Genres

• Codices
• Legal documents
• Notarial documents
• Seals (artifacts)
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• 16th century
• 18th century
• Italian
• Paper
• Italy
• Legal

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Decorations

• fol. 4r (V.1) — Manicule, f. 4r (V.1)
• fol. 64r (V.1) — Manicule, f. 64r (V.1)