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Title

Lettere del Cardinale Francesco de Medici al Marchese Montauti

Authors

• Medici, Francesco Maria de', 1660-1711
• Conti, Paolantonio
• Mazzari, Bartolomeo
• Zefferini, Agostino
• Montauti, Anton Francesco, Abbe Marquis
• Ottoboni, Pietro, Cardinal, 1667-1740

Call number

Ms. Codex 536
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486491
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486491

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1688-1699

Place

Italy

Summary

Letters from Cardinal Francesco Maria de'Medici, son of Ferdinand II, and his secretary Paolantonio Conti to Anton Francesco Montauti, envoy to the imperial court in Vienna regarding relations between the three courts of the Holy Roman Empire, the Pope, and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. The Cardinal's letters, sent with dispatches, are notably personal in tone, conveying Christmas greetings, concern for Montauti's health, expressions of affection with gratitude for gifts, for example, the first letter in the volume, an effusive thank-you for the gift of a "spiritoso" Muslim slave boy (1 May 1688).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Spine title.
   

Extent

750 leaves : 272 x 199 to 307 x 217 mm. bound to 313 x 235 mm

Foliation

Paper, 750; [1-750]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment. Written on various types and sizes of paper, some brittle.

Script

Written in various scribal hands, most items signed by Francesco Maria de Medici or Paolantonio Conti [whose signature reads Paolant. Conti].

Provenance

• Sold by Renzo Rizzi (Milan), 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Ambassadors--Italy--Tuscany--17th century

Genres

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

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