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Language Italian Name Cosimo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 8310

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers and tracts relating to Rome, France, Spain, Piedmont, Florence, the German Empire, England, Venice, Naples and Sicily, Malta, Bohemia, and Urbino; circa 1542-1653. Italian, Spanish, and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes (art. 9, ff. 73-77) a letter of King James I of England to King Philip IV of Spain and a relazione relating to the visit of Charles, Prince of Wales, to Madrid in 1623 in the attempt to conclude the negotiations for his marriage to the Infanta...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 3-37 Treaties: Relazione of the Treaty of Vervins: [1598]: Ital: Copy. ff. 38-41 Cosimo II; Grand Duke of Tuscany: Contract of marriage: 1608: Ital: Copy. ff. 43-44 Poetry ITALIAN: Monferrato, Italy: Sonnet rel. to the war in Monferr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1542-1653
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 8807

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LELIO MARRETTI: Ricordi Politici, vol. ii; circa 1610-1611. Italian. Copy, 18th cent. Lelio Marretti (1530-1617), a nobleman of Siena and a member (from 1557) of the Accademia degli Intronati in Siena (with the name of Attonito), was Prior of Santa Maria in Via Lata in Rome and 'familiare' of Cardinals Alessandro (d. 1581) and Francesco Sforza (d. 1624). For Cardinal Francesco he wrote the relazioni of the conclaves for the elections of Gregory XIV (1590), Innocent IX (1591), and Clement VII...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full reversed skin over limp pasteboards: 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 2nd half 18th cent. Cosimo II; Grand Duke of Tuscany: L. Maretti, Ricordi politici, part II, [dedicated to]: circa 1610-1611: Ital: Copy, 18th cent. Lelio Marretti, Secretary to...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 8810

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SUMMARY TABLE OF WORLD RULERS; 1590-1603. Italian. Autograph. A summary table of kings and rulers of all Western, Oriental, African and American countries, from Spain, France, Lorraine to Malacca, Philippines, China, Japan, Congo, Egypt, and America, compiled for and dedicated to the young prince Cosimo de' Medici (1590-1621), son of Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany (1587-1609) and Cristina of Lorraine. For each country the table provides summary information concerning its geographical loca...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 16th-early 17th cent. Chronology: Education: Summary table of world rulers offered to prince Cosimo de' Medici: 1590-1603: Ital. Cosimo II; Grand Duke of Tuscany: Summary table of world rulers offered to: 1590-1603: Ital.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1590-1603
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 40079

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TRANSCRIPTS of papers in the Florentine archives relating to a proposed marriage between Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (d. 6 Nov. 1612), and a sister of Cosimo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1611-1612. The chief correspondents are the Florentine representatives and emissaries in England and Rome and members of the Tuscan court. The arrangement is roughly chronological. A number of ecclesiastical pronouncements are in Latin, the rest of the papers in Italian. Different extracts from the same d...
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Ottaviano Lotti, Florentine Resident in London and Emissary to Rome: Correspondence with the Tuscan court.: 1611-1612.: Ital.: Copies. Henry Frederick (d, Princes of Wales; 1612): Papers rel. to proposed marriage of, 1611-1612.: 19th cent.: Lat. and Ital.: Copies. Bookplates: Brooke (Sir Thoma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item