Add MS 8339

MISCELLANY relating to the dispute between Popes Pius VI (1775-1799) and Pius VII (1800-1823) and Napoleon I; circa 1798-1816. Italian, French, and Latin. Copies and drafts. The MS. also includes a relazione (art. d. below) of Napoleon's campaign in Russia. Other papers relating to the dispute between the Papacy and Napoleon in Add. 8384, 8387, 8388, 8389, and 8390. The MS. is entitled (f. 1) 'Miscellaneo di varie carte relative alla deportazione di Pio VII e di altri &&&'. Contents include: - (a) ff. 2-3v, 187 bis-191 bis verso, relazioni of the visit of an envoy of the Emperor Francis I of Austria to the Pope in Savona, in Italian, n.d.; - (b) ff. 6-119v, relazione of the deportation and captivity at Savona of Pius VII, entitled 'Assalto al Palazzo Pontificio sul Quirinale, Rapimento di Pio VII e Sua Deportazione', inc. (f. 6) 'Dopo l'invasione degli stati che restavano ancora alla Chiesa', divided into three paragraphs (ff. 6, 96, 113), in Italian, n.d. (a similar text in Add. 8387, art. 1, ff. 1-31); - (c) ff. 120-150, 'De l'abus de cette maxime que L'usage abroge la Loi', legal treatise, inc. 'Nous sommes bien éloignés de condamner le principe', in French, n.d.; - (d) ff. 151-163v, relazione of Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812, inc. 'Dopo avere spiegato in Dresda tutto l'apparato di sua grandezza', in Italian, circa 1812; - (e) ff. 167-170, 171-186, relazioni of the deportation of Pius VII to Fontainebleau and Grenoble, in Italian, n.d.; - (f) ff. 192-206v, 271-279, draft of a treatise and relazioni of the state of the Church in France, in French and Italian, n.d.; - (g) ff. 207-216, 'Le Concordat', treatise, in French, n.d.; - (h) ff. 217-224, historical notes relating to Napoleon, in French, n.d.; - (i) ff. 226-233v, 283-297, three letters to an anonymous recipient relating to the dispute between Pius VI and Napoleon, in French; - (j) ff. 237-240v, 241-246, 249-253v, three extracts from the 'Journal Ecclésiastique, Politique et Littéraire', Sept. 1815, in French; - (k) ff. 281-282, relazione of the arrival of Pius VII in Paris, in Italian, n.d.; - (l) ff. 327-346v, 'Giornale ossia Compendioso Ristretto di quanto è avvenuto di più rilevante di giorno in giorno in Civitavecchia dall'ingresso de' Francesi seguito il giorno 10 di febraio 1798 fino alla totale evacuazione che ebbe luogo il giorno 16 di ottobre 1799', journal of events in Civitavecchia after the arrival of the French troops, in Italian, 1798-1799; - (m) ff. 347-347v, satirical poem relating to the French troops in Rome, inc. 'Peqquanno vierranno a Roma li Francesi / Serenata / De Peppe Monticiano e de Meo Tresteverino / Peppe. Sta Zozzaccia barona de furfanti', in Roman dialect, circa 1798. With corrections and annotations throughout; sketch (f. 225v) of a peacock in pencil. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '96' in pencil in upper right corner of f. 1. Purchased, together with Add. 8384, 8385, 8387, 8388, 8389, and 8390, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 96 (part).

Paper; ff. 355, plus 58 unfoliated blanks throughout. Modern foliation in pencil '1-347' (followed here), repeating nos. 182-191 after f. 191, and omitting nos. 195, 290. Old pagination in ink 'i-xxviii' (ff. 192-206v). Composite volume. 310 x 215mm. At least three hands: the main hand (ff. 1-326) is the same as in Add. 8384, 8387 (ff. 2-31), 8388, 8389 (ff. 2-20, 51-60, 64-67v) and 8390: possibly Louis Cereghelli. Early 19th-cent. binding of full vellum, possibly made for Guilford.