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Title

Il caso celebre di Sciacca

Authors

• Tommasi, Benedetto

Other related names

• North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 464
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486635
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486635

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1795

Place

Italy

Summary

Purports to be the first critical account, comparing documentary testimony and oral tradition, of the 1529 armed conspiracy of Sigismondo di Luna, Conte di Calzabillotta, and the majority of the nobility of Sciacca, Sicily, against Giacomo Perollo, barone di Pandolfina. While the Luna-Perollo feud was a hundred years old, the 1529 conflict seemed to have elements of anti-Spanish revolt, and Luna and his allies were punished accordingly. The last paragraph suggests that this account was largely taken from an earlier version by Padre F. Angelo Candela of the Fransciscan order.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   

Extent

48 leaves : 206 x 152 (183 x 127) mm. bound to 217 x 157 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii (19th-century paper) + 48 + ii (19th-century paper); [1-48]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century[?] boards.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Bookplate of Guilford College; collection of Frederick North, Earl of Guilford.
   
• Formerly in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 5756.
   
• Purchased, 1968.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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