A VOLUME containing copies of Papers and Letters chiefly relating to the negotiations of Cardinal Carlo Carrafa and his brother Giovanni Carrafa, Duca di Paliano, during the papacy of Pope Paul IV. [Giovanni Pietro Carrafa], from 1556 to 1559. In Italian and Latin. Arranged as follows:- "Discorso all' Illmo. Cardinale [Carlo] Carrafa, per haver dall' Imperator Siena; fatto da Monor.[Giovanni] de la Casa, Secrio. di Stato," n. d., f. 2;- "Instructio [Pauli IV. Papæ] pro Illmo. [Scipione Re...
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Carlo Carrafa, Cardinal: Instructions to Ambassadors and miscellaneous papers. Giovanni Carrafa, Duca di Paliano: Correspondence with Card. Carrafa: 1557-1559. includes: f.2 Giovanni de la Casa, Papal Secretary: Discorso al. Card.Carrafa. f. 15 Paul IV; Pope: Instructio pro Cardinali de Pisis...
"LA COMPILATIONE di rectorica, tracta del Tesoro [di Brunetto Latini] e della compilatione di Messer Buono Gianboni, e della compilatione di frate Ghuidocto [Galeotto] da Bologna; " with a prologue, f. 2; -Translation of Cicero's first Oration against Catiline, Ital., f. 46 b.;-Translation, by Brunetto Latini, of Cicero's Oration for Ligarius; with letter from the translator to L. [Diomede Brunetto], Ital. f. 51 b.;-Translation of Cicero's Oration for Marcellus, Ital. f. 56 b.;-Translation o...
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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Orations against Catiline etc. Ital.: Ital. includes: f. 2 Rhetoric: La compilatione di rectorica. f. 51 b Brunetto Latini: Translation of Cicero's oration for Ligarius.
Niccolò da Correggio, Cephalo; Angelus Politianus, Orfeo
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Contents: A Venetian compilation of Italian Renaissance drama and poetry written for the Ariani family (a noble family of Venice). ff. 1r-v: Niccolò da Correggio, Prologue to Cephalo; ff. 2r-21v: Niccolò da Correggio, Cephalo; ff. 21v-28v: Angelo Ambrogini, (nicknamed 'Politianus'), Orfeo; ...
"STORIA della guerra Cartaginese," in four books; translated from the Latin of Lionardo Bruni Aretino [the present version agrees with that printed at Florence, in 1526], f 5 ;-" Guerra di Jugurta, Rè de' Numidi, tradotta dal Latino di Salustio " [by Bartolommeo Granchi da S. Concordio], f. 50;-" Congiura di Catilina, tradotta dal Latino di Salustio;" with a preface by the translator, beginning, " E de bisogno alcuna volta:" the translation begins, ',Omne homo il quale studia andare inanti a...
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Leonardo Bruni, Aretino: Storia della guerra Cartaginese: translated from the Latin. includes: f. 50 Bartolommeo Granchi: Guerra di Jugurta. f. 105 Caius Sallustius Crispus: "Congiura di Catilina, tradotta del Latino". f. 133 Orosius: Translations of portions of his history in Italian.: Italian.
MISCELLANEOUS tracts and fragments, in Latin and Italian, viz.:- " Epistola honorabili viro Ghidino directo;" written by the author of a compendium of Aristotle's Physics, desiring him to present his work to Antonio de la Scala, of Verona, and enumerating other works already sent to him, f. 1 ;-Medical and other receipts, Ital., f. 1 b. ;-Four Italian sonnets, f. 2 .-Verses in Italian, containing an address to the shade of Cæsar, with Cæsar's answer, f. 2 b. ;-Rule for finding the Dominical...
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Poetry ITALIAN: Sonnets etc. Medicine: Receipts, etc. includes: f. 5 Stones, Precious: Treatise upon in Italian.: Italian. f. 13 Marsilio Ficino, of Florence: Epistola Ch. Quarqualio: 1479.
Contents: ff. 1r-125v: Vida del Tamorlán (Life of Timur), an anonymous account in Spanish of a journey from Cadiz to Timur's court in Samarkand between 1403 and 1406 led by the Dominican friarAlonso Páez de Santa María and the nobleman, Ruy González deClavijo, ambassadors of King Henry III of ...
COMMISSION of Francesco Donati, Doge of Venice, appointing Daniele Quirino Podestá or Adria, 8 Aug. 1550. Lat. and Ital. Vellum; with a miniature containing the portrait and arms of Giovanni Lippomani, from another MS. Quarto. [Add. 17,347.]
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ART. Portraits Italian: Lippomani (Giovanni): 16th cent. Arms of Owners of Manuscripts, etc Italian: Lippomani (G.): 16th cent. Francesco Donati; Doge of Venice: Commission appointing Daniele Quirino Podestá of Adria: 1550.: Lat. and Ital. Daniele Quirino: Commission as Podestá of Adria: 1550...
COMMISSION of Marco Antonio Memo, Doge of Venice, appointing Dominico Orio Governor of Canea, or Khania, in Crete [1613]. Lat. and Ital. Vellum; with miniature, and with arms of Orio. Quarto. [Add. 17,349.]
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ART. Portraits Italian: Orio (D.), Venetian Governor of Canea: 1613. Arms of Owners of Manuscripts, etc Italian: Orio (D.), Venetian Governor of Canea: 1613. Marco Antonio Memo; Doge of Venice: Commission appointing Dominico Orio Governor of Canea or Khania, in Crete: [1613].: Lat. and Ital. ...
"DE LE COSE militare et illustre, cum instructione; risposte, amaestramenti a piu occurentie nel conservare justitia, explicate dal dignissimo et illustro Capetanio Bertolamie Coglione" (of Bergamo); answers by the famous Venetian general Bartolomeo Coglione to inquiries on military and other subjects; compiled by one of his followers (imperf.). Vellum, end of the XVth cent. Octavo. [Add. 17,372.]
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Military Tactics: Answers of Bartolomeo Coglione to inquiries on.: Ital. Capetanio Bartolameo Coglione, of Bergamo: Answers to inquiries on military and other subjects: Ital.