Add MS 8770-8771

Italian, and Latin. Copies. Correspondents are Cardinal Nepote Francesco Barberini, Secretary of State of Pope Urban VIII, and Cardinal Marzio Ginetti, peace legate at Cologne (June 1636 - Oct. 1640). Dispatches to Baglioni from Cardinal Barberini are preceded (art. 1, ff. 1-7) by dispatches to the previous nuncio Cardinal Ciriaco Rocci, Bishop of Patras (nuncio to the emperor 18 May 1630 - 8 Sept. 1634). Other recipients include Cardinal Antonio Barberini, brother of the Pope and called Cardinal of St. Onofrio, Prince Taddeo Barberini, Prefect of Rome, Francesco Paolucci de' Calboli, Giulio Mazarin, the Elector of Bavaria Maximilian I, and the papal nuncios Lorenzo Campeggi at Madrid, Giorgio Bolognetti at Paris, Richard Paul Stravius to Flanders, Onorato Visconti to Poland, Francesco Vitelli at Venice, Martino Alfieri at Cologne, and Ranuccio Scotti to Switzerland. Instructions and other papers relating to the diplomatic mission of Cardinal Ginetti in Add. 8732, art. 1, ff. 2-194, and Add. 8772. For Malatesta Baglioni see DBI, 5 (1963), pp. 233-234. For dispatches of Ciriaco Rocci and Malatesta Baglioni see the forthcoming publications of Nuntiaturberichte aus Deutschland, nebst ergänzenden Aktenstücken, Bd. 4-6, Nuntiaturen des Giovanni BAttista Pallotta und des Ciriaco Rocci (1630-1634), ed. by G. Lutz, and Bd. 7, Nuntiaturen des Ciriaco Rocci und des Malatesta Baglioni (1634-1635), ed. by R. Becker. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '390' in pencil in top left corner of front pastedown of Add. 8771. Purchased, together with 8699, 8731, 8733, 8765, 8773, 8774, and possibly 8776, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 390 (part).

Paper. Two volumes.