Arrangement
The volumes of the Transcripts, when they came to the Folger, bore the numeration and classification that appear in the Indice. As they were accessioned and catalogued, a new marking system was devised and a record kept to identify each volume by its old and its new number. This typed record of corresponding numbers is preserved at the end of volume 199. Because many of the volumes had been assembled from pieces detached from earlier bound collections, the component pieces often bore separate and uncoordinated numberings, either by pagination or by foliation. And some were not numbered in any way. Where the earlier system was adequate for proper reference and identification, it was allowed to stand; but where confusion might arise, each dubious volume was given a new consecutive (penciled) foliation.
Entries in this Calendar follow the numbered sequence of volumes for MS Folger W.b. 132.
The order of entry normally (but not invariably) followed is this:
1. Author, if known or conjecturally assignable, and transcription of general title page, where one exists. Otherwise, a bracketed short descriptive label of contents is provided.
2. Brief statement of pagination, noting any peculiarities and, if warranted, a further statement as to the present condition of the manuscript. Generally speaking, the items in each volume, even when written in different hands, are readily legible, the bindings sound, and the quality of the paper and inking good. Exceptions to these normal conditions are noted.
3. A statement concerning the language(s) involved. Roughly,
a third of the Transcripts are in Latin; two-thirds in Italian; a small number in French; and an even smaller number in Spanish.
4. A transcription (sometimes abbreviated) of the entry for each item as it is given in the 1728
Indice. The parenthesized final part of this entry identifies the item by the shelf-or call-number assigned it in 1728. This is the number which still appears on the spine of the volume.
5. If the volume contains more than one item, the total contents, in sequence, are normally listed. In a few instances, where a volume contains several dozen different items, a general description of contents may be substituted for the complete listing. If the volume consists entirely--or mostly--of letters, the number of letters is indicated.
But the user of the Calendar should bear in mind that the count may be approximate, not necessarily exact.
6. The final part of the entry (which may sometimes be combined with the preceding or ‘Contents’ part) is reserved for comment on the item. This may be chiefly evaluative; but it may also attempt to indicate something of the history of the document, the present location of its original and/or of other copies, and whether or not it has been printed. Inasmuch as it is expected that most users of this Calendar will be, like the compiler, interested in English affairs, the ‘Comment’ section of the entry offers some guidance with respect to these.
The Calendar itself is followed by a Chronological Register and by an Analytical Index, instruments which, it is hoped, will facilitate ready access to special topics and periods covered by the Transcripts.
Scope and content
Exactly how and why the collection was first put together, or for which member of the illustrious Strozzi family, are matters far from clear. Most of the items contained in it are not originals; they are, instead, transcripts made in the second half of the seventeenth century or in the first three decades of the eighteenth. Most of them are from the hands of professional copyists and are written in the beautiful cancelleresca script; only a few, by their crabbed irregularities, give any appearance of being originals. A few are printed broadsides or pamphlets (avvisi) contemporary with the events they concern. In a fairly large number of instances, irregularities of numeration, or even
quite distinct systems and hands, indicate that the present volume binds together parts disassembled from earlier compilations. Dating of the transcripts, at least loosely, is occasionally helped by the internal evidence of a copyist who tells when his task was completed or by references to events so worded as to permit the assigning of a terminus ad quem.
A most helpful guide to the identification of individual items, and to assigning them a local habitation at least as early as 1728, is provided by the Indice, MS W.b.132 (199). This is a catalogue, made in that year, of the manuscripts in the library of Lorenzo Strozzi, Duke of Bagnolo and Prince of Forano, an ancestor, presumably, of that ‘Principe Strozzi’ from whom the collection came into the hands of the Gonnelli firm (see Provenance, below). With a few exceptions, duly noted hereinafter, every separate item in the Folger’s present set can be positively identified as coming from the library of that eighteenth-century nobleman. Occasionally the Indice provides useful information not to be gleaned from the Transcript volumes themselves; it also provides a record of items once in the Prince’s library but not now to be found among the volumes of the Folger set. Mainly, these are titles of works we should much like to see: volumes of poetry or of plays or of other belles-lettres. Whether these missing volumes (or items) are now extant and whether, if so, they are preserved as a unit, I am unable to determine; but that they once formed part of the original collection throws a welcome light upon the mind and interests of that Strozzi, whoever he was, for whom the whole collection was
transcribed.
The fact of transcription itself, at so late a date, raises an interesting question. Why should anyone, it may be asked, wish to have manuscript copies of works some of which were already in print, or wish to have an entire library of non-original manuscripts? We cannot be sure that the answers we supply correspond entirely with the motives bringing the collection into existence. Working through the set, however, and considering the highly sensitive nature of some of the contents, we can easily realize why no printed version existed--or could exist--at the end of the seventeenth century: the Church simply did not view with benign eye the candid revelation of such devious and reprehensible curial (papal) ‘diplomacy’ as these pages lay open. Further, for some of the material there probably existed only the original, not appropriable; and, before the days of quick and easy duplication by photo-stat, Xerox, or microfilm, the making of a manuscript copy was the only means of obtaining a version for one’s own library. Some of the material, also, such as the Venetian relazioni, though unprinted, was so valuable and so widely disseminated in other manuscript copies, that no cultivated man (and particularly one of a political cast of mind) would have felt fully dressed without possessing an exemplar of his own. For his cabinet of ‘curiosities’ to have been lacking would have been too much like having no copy of Virgil or Petrarch--or of Shakespeare--in the house. But one of the most powerful persuasives, we may suspect, was the lingering aristocratic
(i.e. snobbish) notion that a gentleman or nobleman should prefer manuscripts to the ‘vulgar’ printed books. They cost more and were custom-tailored, so to speak; and in their large format and uniform (or almost uniform) vellum bindings they made a handsome display on the shelves of one’s study. It was becoming difficult to find a readier means to what Thorstein Veblen called Conspicuous Consumption, that earmark of the rich and privileged.
Rich and privileged the Strozzi certainly were and had been since the fourteenth century. Of Florentine families they ranked among the most eminent, competing with, sometimes at war with, and occasionally intermarrying with the Medici themselves. In their beginnings they were tradesmen, merchants, bankers; in the sixteenth century and earlier they were notable ‘patriots’ (albeit expatriate), condottieri, capitani; and in the seventeenth century they supplied bishops, archbishops, and a cardinal or two to the Church. A few strays turn up along the way as artists, geographer-travelers, playwrights, poets. Many of them figure by name and record in the pages of these Transcripts, the most notable being, perhaps, Filippo (christened Giovanni Battista; 1488-1538); Lorenzo, his brother and a family biographer (b. 1482); Frà Leone, the famous Prior of Capua, Gerosolimitano, and a sea-marshal for France (1515-1554); Pietro (1510-1558), his brother, also a marshal for France; and Tito Vespasiano (15c.) and Ercole (murdered, 1508), father and son, Latin poets at the court of the Estensi in Ferrara. There is every reason why various Strozzi should figure largely in these accounts, as they do; but it is not a little surprising (and revelatory of a certain breadth of mind) that equal or even greater attention should be paid to the Medici
family. A sense of history, and a just one, lies heavy on these pages. Which is one of the great virtues of the collection.
But another, and possibly greater, virtue is the range of matter which it assembles, conveniently, in one place under the general rubric of history-politics. What, in brief, may one expect to find in these 198 volumes of texts--texts public and texts arcane? In point of time, disregarding a few vapid ‘general histories’ which begin with Creation and meander haphazardly through all subsequent ages, they cover primarily the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. We do not know for whom the collection was originally brought together, but judging from the great preponderance of materials dealing with ecclesiastical organization and administration, it seems reasonable to think that he was one already high in the Church or one deliberately preparing to enter a life of ecclesiastical affairs--a bishop or cardinal perhaps, or one intending to be a secretary to such a personage.
Significantly, the collection starts with Alessandro Tassoni’s twelve-volume (actually ten volumes; two are missing, and were marked as being so in the 1728 catalogue) Annali ecclesiastici, a reduction and rectification (still unpublished) of Baronius. It then proceeds (vols. 11-13) to a set of annals by Giovanni Pietro Maffei covering the reign of Pope Gregory XIII and to Maffei’s Life (vol. 14) of Sixtus V. Volumes 15-27 relate in considerable detail, and often in several versions, accounts of papal conclaves from the election (1305) of Clement V down to that (1700) of Clement XI. These accounts are interspersed with much consideration of the process
itself. The accounts of the conclaves are followed (vols. 28-47) by a series of diaries and ceremoniali of the Roman Court, including those of Infessura, Burchard, di Grassi, Mucanzi, and Gualtieri. To these succeed (vols. 48-58) the secular histories of Varchi, Domenico de’ Rossi, and Santori. With such a starting emphasis, it is not surprising to find the historical impulse strongly present throughout the Transcripts.
Without further pursuing the strictly numerical sequence of the volumes, we may now look briefly at the principal concentrations of subject-matter. Here, one of the most salient features must be the surprisingly large number of ambassadorial relazioni, Venetian and other, which are represented--sometimes by two copies. These contemporary eye-witness reports and estimates are of inestimable historical, social, economic, and political significance; and it is astounding that long before any printed collections of relazioni appeared, the original planner of this ‘library’ (as in truth its range entitles it to be called) should have recognized their value and assembled so many of them. That fact is, in itself, of historical importance. Even when such relations are not from the pen of an ambassador (or his secretary) they emanate from trained observers, follow a clearly established pattern, and carry with them that vivid air of on-the-spot reportage so useful to historian and novelist alike for recreating the atmosphere of a time long past. It is principally through these relazioni that the collection conveys its enormous mass of information concerning the civic organization, the economics, the military strength, and the political alliances of the important Italian city-states and of the major European countries
during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
This material is reinforced through the great number of papal ‘instructions’ given to nuncios and other official emissaries of the Church and, even more importantly, through the correspondence carried on between the nuncios or agents and the Home Office. In that segment of the Transcripts designated in the 1728 Indice by the letter L (for lettere), there are over 14,000 letters; and a great many others are scattered throughout other volumes. Although the reports of the nuncios were normally dispatched in weekly or bi-weekly packets, their accounts are closely detailed and mainly conducted on a day-to-day basis. It is possible, therefore, through them to keep one’s finger constantly on the pulse of events in Paris, Madrid, Venice, the Emperor’s Court, or even far-off Poland and England. Naturally, the nunciatures in France and Spain, the ‘Most Christian’ and ‘Most Catholic’ courts, supply the greatest body of information.
During the period mainly represented in these volumes, 1500-1700, one problem was never far from the mind of spiritual and temporal ruler alike: the Turkish problem or ‘peril'. Besides the various accounts (vol. 86) devoted specifically to description and analysis of Turkish lands and customs, there are ubiquitous notices of Turkish incursions into Christian territory, notices of unexpected alliances and peace arrangements--such as those of Venice and Count Thoekoely--with the Turks, notices of papal crusading intentions or pleas for aid, as well as several accounts of Don John of Austria and the great victory
of Lepanto. Turkish military might and aggressiveness kept Europe atremble for the greater part of three centuries.
But war against the Turks was not so obsessive a preoccupation of the militarily disposed as to preclude internecine struggle--slaughter would be a better word--in Christian lands. In fact, the various powers of Europe were no more successful in mounting a cooperative and unified attack against the Turk, than they were at keeping the peace among themselves. War between pope and emperor, between France and Spain, between Swedes and Germans, between Italian states, between orthodox and ‘heretic;’ the miseries of the Low Countries; sieges of town after town, with attendant massacre and pillage; the sack of Rome; revolutions or civil wars in Genoa, in Messina, in Naples, in Portugal, in England--everywhere there were wars and rumors of wars. Looming large through the years from 1618 to 1648 were the swirling eddies of the Thirty Years’ War, with the much discussed ‘problem’ of the Valtellina and the Grisons. All these (and, alas, others) receive ample attention in the pages of these Transcriptions. In addition, several volumes are devoted to the theory and tactics of war. A glance at the entry ‘war’ in the Index to this Calendar will indicate the appalling extent of the coverage.
Wars and other activities of man’s life do not get conducted without leaders, villains, and a cast of supporting characters. The Strozzi Transcripts are rich in biographical information--not so much, perhaps, in the way of formal biographies, though these are present (see vols. 11-14, 68, 81-83, 88, 162, etc.)--as by way of letters, thumbnail sketches in the conclavi and relazioni, and incidental observations spread with liberal hand throughout
the Transcripts. Hundreds, probably thousands, of individuals important in their time (and many of continuing importance) are mentioned, often in some particularity. A thorough name index of the set, with appropriate identifications, would require one or more large volumes.
The Analytical Index provided below, though long, is not to the entire set but merely to such names and topics as figure in the present Calendar.
Among the most prominent and most fully treated figures, to mention only a few at random, are the Conde-Duque of Olivares, the Duke of Alva, Urban VIII, Mazarin, Richelieu, Louis XIV, Philip II, Andrea Doria, Paul V, Masaniello, the two Don Johns of Austria, Wallenstein, Donna Olimpia (Maidalchini), Innocent X, and Christina, Queen of Sweden. Much information also, direct and indirect, may be gathered about the great Italian families: the Medici, Orsini, Colonna, Gonzaga, Ottoboni, della Rovere, Estensi, Barberini, Farnesi, Chigi, Piccolomini, and others--including, of course, the Strozzi.
As with individuals and families, so with the separate cities of Italy and of the rest of Europe. There are well particularized accounts of Rome, Venice, Naples, Messina, Urbino, Florence, Siena, Mantua, Viterbo, Genoa, Geneva, Paris, Madrid, Cologne, Constantinople--even of London. In one or two instances (as for Viterbo) contemporary maps or charts accompany the account.
What is possibly the most surprising and unexpected aggregation of related materials in the Transcripts is the large number of works which may be described as conduct manuals or courtesy books, including how-to-do-it guides, some of which are merely theoretical, others grubbily practical. These are of extraordinary
range, interest, and variety. Among them, by way of illustration, may be named a pope’s advice to his nephew; several how-to-get-on-in-Rome discourses; an ambassador’s advice to his successor in Venice; the proper training and entourage for an ambassador to Poland; Antonio Pérez on successful courtiership; directions for the governing of an ecclesiastical State; a Venetian father’s instructions to his son on the choice of a cardinal-padrone; notes for Roman prelates on the use of law; and a complete encyclopedia (vol. 196) on materie cavalleresche. The various instructions and collections of advice directed to ambassadors are of particular interest and constitute almost a subgenre in this kind of literature.
Mention of the last word in the preceding paragraph brings us to the consideration of one disappointing aspect of the Strozzi Transcripts, namely, the relative lack of works properly classifiable as ‘literature’ or belles-lettres. As the collection now stands in the Folger, about the only ‘literary’ works included--with the possible exceptions of Tassoni’s Annali and Filippiche and Lelio Maretti’s Ricordi -- are the letters and poems of Lorenzo Magalotti (vols. 138, 195, 198). That the library of the Prince of Forano was, however, once much richer in such works, the Indice adequately attests. It is not much to our present purpose to dwell upon what the Folger Transcripts do not contain, but it will certainly give a fairer view of that Strozzi mind which first envisaged the collection if we do briefly note a few representative items recorded in the Indice but not to be found among the Transcripts at the Folger. Here it may be observed that the Church Fathers, even in their more humane writings, are conspicuously absent. Nor are the classics at all well represented.
The only Greek work is a Xenophon (one minor work) in Latin translation. Cicero (Orations, Epistle to Quintus, Of Friendship) and Lucan are left in their original Latin. The Lucretius, Ovid (Heroides), Sallust (Catiline), and Seneca (Epistles) are all in Italian translation. And Virgil--non est inventus. We are dealing, evidently, with a less than avid Humanist.
Italian letters, on the other hand, fare somewhat better. There are present satires by Adimari, Testi, Ricciardi, and Salvatore Rosa; rime, sonetti, and canzoni by Dante and Petrarch (whose Trionfi, with comment, also appear), Cavalcanti, Cino da Pistoia, Fazio degli Uberti, Pulci, and half a dozen others. There are also three commedie, four or five tragedie, and what appears to be the complete canon of drammi (per musica) of Giulio Rospigliosi--who was Pope Clement IX. Added to these are a miscellany of madrigals and several prose works by Boccaccio and by Sperone Speroni. Appropriately, the Eroticon of Tito Vespasiano Strozzi, sometimes called the best of the Italian neo-Latinists, is present; and there are listed numerous volumes of poems by Giovanni Battista Strozzi, who became blind. The selection, one sees, was not overwhelming. But neither was it despicable.
An Introduction is not the proper place to list all the collection’s miscellaneous oddities and ‘goodies’--such as the materials on the Council of Trent, the fascinating record left by a Governor of Rome during Milton’s visit, the villainous life of the Abbot Piccini (a perfectly gorgeous prototype of today’s Maffioso), or the atrocities attendant upon the taking of Acqui. These and other red-letter matters are all duly noted at their proper place in the ensuing Calendar.
List of Manuscripts
W.b.132 (1-10) Alessandro Tassoni (1565-1635). Annali ecclesiastici. The original numeration of these MSS indicates that the present ten volumes are part of a twelve-volume set, volumes 1 and 2 being absent, as they were in 1728 when the Bagnolo-Forano Indice was compiled. At the end of volume 10 is the legend, “Il fine del tomo duodecimo,” -- which does not necessarily mean the end of the work.
Indice: Annali Ecclesiastici d'Alessandro Tassoni dalla venuta di Christo fino all’ anno 1400 Tom. 12. A 1 fino al 12. ‘Manca il Tomo 1; e 2.’
According to the Treccani Enciclopedia Italiana (ristampa 1950), art. Tassoni, the Annali have not been printed. The original Ms (4 volumes), is preserved in the Biblioteca Estense, Modena. Many copies are said to exist; but the length of the Ms precludes the existence of very ‘many’ copies.
The work is arranged on the plan of Cardinal Baronius’ Annales, which it is designed to supplement, correct, and criticize. It contains many incidental
observations of a political or moral complexion. The references to English affairs contained in it are derived principally from the Venerable Bede.
W.b.132 (11-13) Giovanni Pietro Maffei (1536-1603). Annali di Papa Gregorio Decimo Terzo del Maffei [3 Parts].
11 Annali... Parte Prima. 5 blank leaves + 221 leaves + 5 blank leaves.
Book I (1572), fols. 3a-55b;Bk. II (1573), 56a-92b; Bk. III (1574), 93a-122b; Bk. IV (1575), 123a-178a; Bk. V (1576), 178b-221a.
12 Annali... Parte Seconda. 5 blank leaves + 313 leaves + 8 blank leaves.
Book VI (1577), fols. 3a-52a; Bk. VII (1578), 52b-106b; Bk. VIII (1579), 107a-173b; Bk. IX (1580), 174a- 238b; Bk. X (1581), 239a-313b.
13 Annali... Parte Terza. 5 blank leaves + 218 leaves + 6 blank leaves.
Book XI (1581), fols. 3a-54b; Bk. XII (1582), 55a-114a; Bk. Xiii (1583), 114a-167b; Bk. XIV (1584), 168a-218b.
Indice: fol. 112b -- Maffei, P., Annali del Pontificato di Gregorio XIII. Tom. 3. A. 13. 14. 15.
It is this work, presumably, which was published at Rome, 1742, in two volumes (see British Museum Catalogue, s.v. ‘Maffei’); but it was written almost
contemporaneously with the events it describes.
Throughout the three volumes there are mentioned (with their titles) hundreds of important people active in the period of Gregory’s reign. Of English interest are passages on Nicholas Sanders, Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots (I, fol. 206); on the papal-Italian-Spanish fleet to invade Ireland, with notices of Smerwick and Fort dell’ Oro (II, fols. 158b-161b); on further Irish affairs and Mary Queen of Scots (III, fols. 106a-110a). Gregory kept a watchful eye on England, France, Poland, and the Turk.
W.b.132 (14) [Giovanni Pietro Maffei, supposed author] Vita del Sommo Pontefice Sisto V. ovvero Annali del suo Pontificato. (Opera supposta del P. Maffei).
4 blank leaves + 285 leaves (modern foliation) + 9 blank leaves. The volume lacks a decorative title-page.
Indice: fol. 179a -- Sisto V cioè Annali del suo Ponteficato, che si credono del Padre Maffei A. 16.
The work does not appear among the published works of Father Maffei and perhaps remains unpublished. Whoever the author was, he was a contemporary of the events described, an eye-witness to some. There is some casual attention to English affairs, the most
striking being an account (fols. 118b-122a, 129a-138b) of the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots related from a sympathetic, pro-Catholic viewpoint. Striking also is the account (fols. 4b-20b) of the tragedy of Vittoria Accorrambona. Sixtus V, born 1520, was pope 1585-1590.
W.b.132 (15-21) A series of volumes recording the papal conclaves, written partly in Latin, partly in Italian. The volumes contain much important statistical and narrative matter, many names of participating cardinals and others. A record of the election of the popes from that of Clement V (reigned 1305-1314) to that of Alexander VII (r. 1655-1667). Many of the accounts have at the end a list of the participating cardinals. Contents of the constituent volumes itemized separately below.
15 Conclavi de’ sommi Pontefici principiando da Clemente V sino a Eugenio IV. inclusivè [1305-1431].
214 numbered folios + table at end.
Indice: fol. 39a -- (C. 17.)
Contents:
1) Conclave della Sede Vacante di Papa Benedetto Undecimo nel quale dell’ anno 1305 fù creato Papa il Vescovo Burdegavense, e fù quello che pose la Santa Sede Apostolica in Francia nella Città d'Avignone, e si fè chiamare Clemente V. (fols. 1a-11a; fol. 12 blank).
2) Conclave Sedis Vacantis Clementis P.P. V. in quo creatus fuit Joannes Papa XXI dictus XXII (fols. 13a-15b; fol. 16 blank).
3) Conclave Ioannis XXI dicti XXII 1316 (fols. 17a-22a).
4) Nicolaus Quintus Antepapa [sic] Anno 1327. Schisma 27. (fols. 23a-24a; fol. 25 blank).
5) Benedictii XII. Conclave, et Creatio. Anno 1334. (fols. 26a-29a).
7) Conclave Sedis Vacantis Benedicti 12 in quo creatus fuit Clemens Papa VI (fols. 32a-32b; fol. 33 blank).
6) Conclave Sedis Vacantis Ioannis P.P. XXI dicti XXII. in quo electus fuit Papa Benedictus XII (fols. 30a-31a).
8) Clementis VI Creatio Anno 1342 (fols. 34a-37a).
9) Conclave Sedis Vacantis Clementis Papae VI in quo creatus fuit Innocentius Papa VI (fols. 38a-38b; fol. 39 blank).
10) Innocentii Sixti Creatio. Anno 1352 (fols. 40a-43a).
11) Urbani Sixti creatio Anno 1362 (fols. 43a-46b).
12) Conclave Sedis Vacantis Innocentii Papae VI. in quo electus fuit Urbanus P.P. V (fols. 47a-49a; fol. 50 blank).
13) Conclave Sedis Vacantis Urbani Papae Quinti. In quo electus fuit Gregorius XI (fols. 51a-52a).
14) Gregorii XI Creatio. Anno 1371 (fols. 53a-56b).
15) Urbani Sexti electio (fols. 57a-79b; fols. 80-82 blank).
16) Sedis Vacantis Gregorii XI in quo fuit creatus Papa Urbanus VI (fols. 83a-95a; fol. 96 blank).
17) Origo nephani Schismatis sub Urbano VI caepet anno Domini 1378 et Conclave movum in Civitate Fundorum ubi 14 Cardinales ab Urbano deficientes elegerunt Clementem VII dictum Antipapam (fols. 97a-112a).
18) Conclave Bonifatii IX Anno Domini 1389 (fols. 113a-115b; fol. 116 blank).
19) Conclave Benedicti XII dicti XIII Avenionensis Antipapae sedente Romae Bonifacio IX (fols. 117a-122a; fol. 123 blank).
20) Conclave Sedis Vacantis Urbani PP. VI in quo creatus fuit Papa Bonifatius IX (fols. 124a-125a).
21) Conclave in quo creatus fuit Bonifacius Papa Nonus sedente Clemente Septimo Antipapa Avenionensis Anno Domini 1389 et primo de Obitu Urbani VI decimoquintus Octobris eiusdem anni (fols. 126a-133a).
22) Conclave Benedicti XII seu XIII Antipapae anno Domini 1399 (fols. 134a-137b; fol. 138 blank).
23) Conclave Benedicti XII dicti XIII Avenionensis Antipapae Sedente Romae Bonifacio IX (fols. 139a-144b; fols. 145-146 blank).
24) Conclave in quo creatus fuit Papa Innocentius contra Benedictum XIII Antipapam Avenione sedentem (fols. 147a-151b; fol. 152 blank).
25) Conclave in quo fuit creatus Papa Innocentius septimus anno Domini 1404 (fols. 153a-155b; fol. 156 blank).
27) Conclave Gregorii XII contrà Benedictum XIII Avenione sedentem vocatum Petrum de Luna (fols. 162a-172b; fol. 173 blank).
26) Conclave Gregorii XII Pontificis Maximi anno Domini 1406 (fols. 157a-160b; fol. 161 blank).
28) Literae ad Benedictum XIII per Gregorium XII super unione facienda transmissae Gregorius Episcopus Servus Servorum Dei (fols. 174a-180a; fol. 181 blank).
29) Conclave Sedis Vacantis Gregorii XII in quo creatus fuit Alexander V Pontifex (fols. 182a-184a; fol. 185 blank).
30) Alexandri Quinti Papae Creatio [anno] Domini 1409 (fols. 186a-190b; fol. 191 blank).
31) Conclave summarium Ioannis XXIII (fols. 192a-192b; fol. 193 blank).
32) Conclave Sedis Vacantis Alexandri P.P. V in quo creatus fuit Ioannes XXII dictus Icannes XXIII (fols. 194a-197a).
33) Ioannis Vigesimi secundi dicti Vigesimi tertii Papae creatio Anno Domini 1410 (fols. 198a-207b; fol. 208 blank).
34) Conclave in quo Concilio Costantiensi per depositionem Ioannis XXIII Pontificis Romani, ac Antipapae Gregorii XII in Germania, et Benedicti XIII in Gallia creatus fuit Martinus Papa V (fols. 209a-217a).
35) Conclave Sedis vacantis Martini Papae Quinti in quo electus fuit Eugenius Papa Quartus (fols. 213a-214b; fol. 215 blank).
16 Conclavi de’ Sommi Pontefici principiando da Nicolò Quinto, sino à Marcello II inclusive [1447-1555].
239 numbered folios + table.
Indice: fol. 39a -- (= C. 18.)
Contents:
1) Conclave nel quale fù creato Papa il Cardinale Tommaso di Sarzana, detto Niccolò V (fols. 1a-11b; fol. 12 blank). Italian.
2) Conclave fatto per la sede vacante di Niccolò Quinto, nel quale fù creato Papa Alfonso Borgia Cardinale di SS. Quattro Spagnuolo, detto Calisto Terzo (fols. 13a-16a). Ital.
3) Conclave fatto nella Sede Vacante di Calisto Terzo, nel quale fù creato Papa il Cardinale Enea Silvio Piccolomini di Siena detto Pio Secondo (fols. 17a-27a). Ital.
4) Conclave fatto nella Sede Vacante di Pio Secondo nel quale fù creato Papa il Cardinal Pietro Barbo Venetiano detto Paolo Secondo (fols. 28a-31a; fols. 32-34 blank). Ital.
5) Creatio Pauli II (fols. 35a-45b; fol. 46 blank). Latin.
6) Conclave nel quale fù eletto sommo Pontefice il Cardinale Francesco della Rovere e detto Sisto IV (fols. 47a-49b; fol. 50 blank). Ital.
7) Conclave nel quale fù eletto sommo Pontefice il Cardinale Giovanni Battista Cibo e detto Innocentio VIII (fols. 51a-61b; fol. 62 blank). Ital.
8) Conclave nel quale fu eletto Pontefice il Card. Rodrigo Borgia e detto Alessandro VI (fols. 63a-
9) Conclave nel quale fù creato Pontefice il Cardinale Francesco Piccolomini e detto Pio Terzo (fols. 76a-83a; fol. 84 blank). Ital.
10) Conclave di Giulio II (fols. 85a-89b; fol. 90 blank). Ital.
11) Conclave nel quale fù eletto sommo Pontefice il Cardinal Giovanni de’ Medici e detto Leone X (fols. 91a-96b; fol. 97 blank). Ital.
12) Conclave nel quale fu eletto sommo Pontefice il Card. d'Utrecht e detto Adriano VI (fols. 98a-105b). Ital.
13) Conclave nel quale fu eletto Pontefice il Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici e detto Clemente VII (fols. 106a-116a; fols. 117-118 blank). Ital.
14) Conclave Papae Adriani VI Romae die dominico prima mensis Decembris nocte sequenti obiit Leo Decimus 1521 Pontificatus anno IX (fols. 119a-139a; fol. 140 blank). Latin.
15) Conclave nel quale fù eletto Pontefice il Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici, e detto Clemente Settimo (fols. 141a-174b; fols. 175-176 blank). Ital.
16) Conclave nel quale fù eletto Pontefice il Card. Alessandro Farnese e detto Paolo III (fols. 177a-182a; fols. 183-184 blank). Ital.
17) Conclave nel quale fu creato Pontefice Il Card. Giovanni Maria del Monte e detto Giulio III l'anno 1550 (fols. 185a-204b). Ital.
18) Conclave di Papa Giulio III (fols. 205a-229a). Ital.
19) Conclave nel quale fù eletto sommo Pontefice il Card. Marcello Cervino e detto Marcello II (fols. 230a-239a). Ital.
17 Conclavi de Sommi Pontefici principiando da Paolo IV sino ad Innocentio IX inclusive [1555-1591].
247 numbered folios + table.
Indice: fol. 39a -- (= c. 19.)
Contents:
1) Conclave nel quale fù eletto Sommo Pontefice il Cardinal Giovanni Pietro Caraffa e detto Paolo IV (fols. la-lla; fol. 12 blank). Ital.
2) Diarium à morte Pauli Papae Quarti usque ad Electionem Cardinalis Io. Angeli Medices in Summum Pontificem qui dictus fuit Pius Quartus ab Antonio Guidi I.C. scriptum (fols. 13a-54b; fols. 55-56 blank). Latin.
3) Convlave di Pio Quinto (fols. 57a-82b; fols. 83-84 blank). Ital.
4) Conclave nel quale fù eletto Pontefice il Card. Ugo Buoncompagni e detto Gregorio XIII (fols. 85a-93b; fols. 94-96 blank). Ital.
5) Conclave nel quale fu eletto Pontefice il Card. Francesco Felice Peretti e detto Sisto V (fols. 97a-108a). Ital.
6) Conclave di Urbano VII (fols. 109a-125a; fol. 126 blank). Ital.
7) Conclave nel quale fù eletto Pontefice il Cardinale Niccolò Sfondrato e detto Gregorio XIV (fols. 127a-186b). Ital.
8) Altro Conclave di Gregorio XIV (fols. 187a-232b; fols. 233-234 blank. Ital. (* Note in Nos. 7 and 8 the two long accounts of this bitterly contested election in a conclave that lasted two months.)
9) Conclave nel quale fù eletto il Cardinale Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti e detto innocentio IX (fols. 235a-241b; fol. 242 blank). Ital.
10) Conclave d'innocentio IX (fols. 243a-247b). Ital.
18 Conclavi o vero Relazioni Historiche dell’ assontion al Pontificato di Gregorio XIV, e Clemente VIII descritte dal Signor Lelio Maretti.
5 blank leaves + 316 leaves (original numeration) + 3 blank leaves.
Indice: fol. 39a -- (= C. 20.)
Contents:
1) Conclave nel quale fù creato Pontefice il Card. Niccolò Sfondrato e detto Gregorio XIV del Signor Lelio Maretti (fols. la-184a). Ital.
2) Conclave nel quale fù assonto al Pontificato il Cardinale Hippolito Aldobrandino e detto Clemente VIII del Signor Lelio Maretti (fols. 185a-316b). Ital.
The volume has an elaborate general title-page in careful pen and ink, but the two accounts do not have separate title-pages -- merely the top-of-page entries given above. Both accounts are elaborately detailed. (For other work by Maretti, see entry for vol. 190.)
19 Conclavi de’ Sommi Pontefici Principiando da Clemente VIII sino ad Urbano VIII. [1592-1623]
7 blank leaves + 194 leaves + table + 3 blank leaves.
Indice: fol. 39a -- (= C. 21.)
Contents:
1) Conclave nel quale fù eletto Pontefice il Card. Hippolito Aldobrandino e detto Clemente VIII (fols. la-34b). Ital.
2) Conclave nel quale fù creato sommo Pontefice il Cardinal Alessandro de’ Medici e detto Leone Undecimo (fols. 35a-51b; fol. 52 blank). Ital.
3) Altro Conclave del medesimo (fols. 53a-66b; fols. 67-68 blank). Ital.
4) Conclave nel quale fu creato Pontefice il Cardinal Cammillo Borghese, e detto Paolo Quinto (fols. 69a-92b). Ital.
5) Creatione di Papa Paolo V (fols. 93a-104b). Ital.
6) Conclave nel quale fu eletto Pontefice il Card. Alessandro Ludovisi e detto Gregorio XV (fols. 105a-170b; fols. 171-172 blank). Ital.
7) Conclave di Gregorio XV che dicono sia del Mascardi (fols. 173a-194a). Ital.
For other entries by or concerning Agostino Mascardi (1591-1640), to whom the last item above is attributed, see vols. 148 (fols. 21b-22a), 149 (fols. 50a ff.), and 173 (fols. 141a-150a, 177a-188a).
20 Conclavi diversi di Papa Urbano VIII.
194 leaves + table.
Language: Italian in all accounts.
Indice: fol. 41a -- Conclavi diversi d'Urbano VIII (= C. 22.)
Contents:
1) Conclave per la morte di Gregorio XV nel quale fù creato Papa il Cardinale Maffeo Barberino e detto Urbano VIII (fols. 1a-36b).
2) Conclave di Papa Urbano VIII (fols. 37a-61b; fol. 62 blank).
3) Conclave di Urbano VIII (fols. 63a-125a; fol. 126 blank).
4) Conclave in forma di relatione nel quale si narra l'elettione d'Urbano VIII l'anno 1623. Che dicono possa essere di Agostino Mascardi (fols. 127a-141a).
5) Risposta Apologetica all'antecedente Conclave La Fortuna in ogni tempo in Roma (fols. 142a-154a; fols. 155-156 blank).
6) Altro Conclave di Urbano VIII (fols. 157a-178b; fols. 179-180 blank).
7) Trattato del Conclave di Papa Urbano VIII (fols. 181a-194a).
Comment: Of these seven different accounts, the third is attributed to Urban himself, the fourth to Mascardi. This latter is the one that begins: ‘La Fortuna in ogni tempo in Roma fà gran mostra di sè....’ and is answered point by point in No. 5. The sixth one, unlike the others in this Urban VIII series, has (fols. 177a-178b) the customary list of cardinals taking part in the conclave.
21 Conclavi de’ Sommi Pontefici Innocentio X et Alessandro VII. [1644-1655]
258 leaves + table.
Language: Italian in all accounts.
Indice: [Conclavi] d'Innocenzo X, e d'Alessandro VII -- fol. 41a (= C. 23.)
Contents:
1) Conclave nel quale fù creato Pontefice il Card. Giovanni Battista Pamfilio e detto Innocentio X che dicono sia del Card. Spada (fols. 1a-130a; fols. 131-132 blank). [In two quite unequal Parts: Pt. I (fols. 1-20a), Pt. II (fols. 21a-130a).]
2) Conclave per la morte d'Urbano VIII, nel quale fù creato Pontefice Innocentio X (fols. 133a-174b). [List of cardinals participating, fols. 173a-174b).]
3) Conclave nel quale fù creato Pontefice il Card. Fabio Chigi e detto Alessandro VII che suppongono esser fatto dal Card. Spada (fols. 235a-247a; fol. 248 blank).
4) Altro Conclave di Alessandro VII (fols. 235a-247a; fol. 248 blank).
5) Creatione del Pontefice Alessandro VII (fols. 249a-258b). [List of cardinals participating, fols. 257a-258b.]
Comment: This volume (21) contains two accounts of the election of Innocent X (one by, or attributed to, Cardinal Bernardino Spada, the other by the secretary to Cardinal Egidio Albernozzi) and three accounts of the election of Alexander VII, the first allegedly by Cardinal Spada, the other two by autori incerti.
W.b.132 (22-23) Io. Baptistae Coccini, S. Rotae Decani, Glossemata ad Bullam S. D. N. Gregorii XV de electione Romani Pontificis.
In two parts: vol. 22 (= Pars Prima), 218 leaves + Index; vol. 23 (Pars II), 228 leaves + Index.
Language: Latin.
Indice: fol. 36b -- Coccini, Io. Baptistae, Glossemata ad Bullam Gregorii XV De Electione Romani Pontificis (= C. 24. 25. 26.) [A marginal note says ‘manca il Nro. 26.']
Comment: This work is useful in connection with the preceding seven volumes and with vols. 24-27, which also deal with conclaves. The entire ‘conclaves’ series (vols. 15-27) is enormously instructive as to the politics of the papal elections.
W.b.132 (24) Conclavi. Da Clemente Decimo sino all'Undecimo [i.e., to the conclave of Clement XI] Vivente, et Altre materie ad essi, ò alla Corte di Roma appartenenti.
213 leaves + Index.
Languages: Italian, Latin, French.
Indice: fol. 40b -- Conclavi da Clemente X fino a Clemente XI, ed altre materie ad essi, ò alla Corte
di Roma appartenenti in F. (= C. 27: 1).
Contents:
1) Conclave, nel quale fù eletto Papa il Card. Emilio Altieri Romano col nome di Clemente Decimo (fols. 1a-32a). Ital.
2) Discorso sopra il Conclave di Clemente X (fols. 33a-64a). Ital.
3) Conclave della Creatione di Innocenzo XI (fols. 65a-94a; fols. 95-98 blank). Ital.
4) [No title; begins:] Morto il Papa Clemente Decimo a 22 Luglio 1676 e finito di celebrargli l'essequie solite, entrorno i Cardinali il secondo giorno d'Agosto in Conclave per crearvi il nuovo Papa [= Innocent XI] (fols. 99a-115a; fol. 116 blank). Ital.
5) Conclave nel quale fù eletto Papa il Card. Pietro Ottoboni col nome di Alessandro VIII (fols. 117a-148a; fols. 149-151 blank). Ital.
6) [Papal Bull of] Alexander P.P. VIII [nullifying French ‘Regalia’ proposed in 1682] (fols. 152a-155a). Latin.
7) Conclave fatto per la Sede Vacante di Papa Alessandro VIII. Nel quale fù assunto al Pontificato il Cardinale Antonio Pignatelli Napolitano col nome di Innocenzo XII (fols. 156a-164b; fols. 165-167 blank). Ital.
8) Riflessioni sopra i Cardinali Papabili 1692 (fols. 168a-171b). Ital.
9) Discorso politico per la Sede Vacante del 1691 (fols. 172a-179a). Ital.
10) a. Leopoldus ad Sacrum Collegium Cardinalium (fols. 180a-180b). Latin.
b. [Response of Imperial ambassador] (fols. 181a-181b). Ital.
c. Concio allegati Caesarei ad S. Collegium Cardinalium habita post obitum Alexandri Octavi Summi Pontificis (fols. 182a-183a). Latin. [Procedural matters.]
11) Harangue qu'on dit avoir esté faire par Monsieur Robenach au Pape Innocent XII (fols. 184a-191a). French.
12) Consiglio di Suddito Zelante al futuro Pontefice nella Sede Vacante dell'anno 1700 (fols. 192a-198b; fol. 199 blank). Ital.
13) Conclave, in cui è stato creato Papa Clemente XI felicemente Regnante (fols. 200a-213b). Ital.
W.b.132 (25) [Lacks decorative general title-page but has heading on third preliminary leaf:] Zibaldone di scritture ò mescolanza in congiuntura di Conclavi Antichi et moderni.
188 leaves + Index. (fols. 15-18, 23-24, 65-72 lacking).
Language: Latin, Italian, French.
Indice: fol. 39b -- Zibaldone, ò mescuglio di scritture concernenti Conclavi antichi, e moderni, cioè delle Sedi Vacanti lunghe Nro. 1 (= C. 27. 2).
Contents: *Note: In this volume my division or grouping of the materials differs from that of the Index provided at the end.
1) [No heading; endorsed on fol. 2b:] Delle Sedi Vacanti lunghe (fols. 1a-2a). Ital.
2) Capitula facta à S. Re Cardinalibus in Conclave in quo ob morte Urbani Octavi fuit creatus Summus Pontifex S. D. N. Innocentius X (fols. 3a-9b; fol. 10 blank). Latin.
3) [No heading; table of contents at end reads:] De quibus supplicandum futuro Pontifici 1667 (fols. 11a-13a; fol. 12 blank). Latin.
4) Capitoli [endorsed on fol. 22b:] 1670 Capitoli del Conclave (fols. 19a-26b). Ital.
5) [No heading; endorsed on fol. 37b:] Capitula Conclavis anni 1676 post obitum S. M. Clementis Decimi (fols. 27a-36a). Text in Italian.
6) Capitoli del Conclave di Papa Innocentio Undecimo (fols. 38a-41a). Ital.
7) [Further capitoli and a diary of events, 1667] (fols. 42a-63b). Partly Latin, partly Italian. (Note that leaf 64 is blank; eight leaves, 65-72, have been cut out; leaf 73 blank.)
8) Avvertimenti sopra le cose, che s’hanno d'apparecchiare per servitio de Signori Cardinali in Conclave (fols. 74a-79a). Ital.
9) [Folding] Pianta del Conclave fatto in Sede vacante di Papa Alessandro VII... Anno 1667 (fol. 80).
10) [Various documents] Pro Expensis Conclavis (fols. 81a-89a). Latin.
11) Pro Iurisdictione Camerarii Sacri Collegii, &c. (fols. 89a-93a). Latin.
12) Discours de Monsieur L'Ambassadeur de France au Sacré College (fols. 95a-96a). French.
13) [Copies of] Lettere scritte dal S. Collegio al Marchese Maculano Colonello in Dalmatia, et al Generale delle Galere Ponteficie (fols. 97a-101b; fol. 102 blank). Latin.
14) [No heading; endorsed on fol. 104b:] De Aeris Vaticani Insalubritatis Suspicione (fols. 103a-104a). Latin.
15) [No heading; Index reads:] De Congregationibus generalibus post obitum summi Pontificis (fols. 105a-105b; fol. 106 blank). Latin.
16) [Whether a mentally ailing elector should vote in conclave] (fols. 107a-108a). Latin.
17) [Matters of ceremonial form] (fols. 109a-111a; fol. 112 blank). Latin and Italian.
18) De Electione Pontificis (fols. 113a-123b). Latin.
19) De Electione Pontificis Quaestiones variae (fols. 124a-133b; fols. 134-136 blank). Latin.
20) An Cardinalium numerus certus sit, ac definitus (fols. 137a-140b). Latin.
21) A quonam creandi sint Cardinales, et utrum Pontifex renuente Collegio Cardinales creare possit (fols. 141a-143b). Latin.
22) Ex quo tempore soli Cardinales Ius adepti sint Romanum Pontificem eligendi (fols. 143b-148a). Latin.
23) Num Omnes Cardinales ius habeant suffragii Cap. 5 (fols. 149a-153b). Latin.
24) Num pontifice exauctorato electio ad Cardinales an potius ad Consilium generalem pertineat. Cap. VI (fols. 153b-160b). Latin.
25) Possit ne Pontificis Electio à duabus Cardinalium partibus peracta aliqua ratione oppugnari. Cap. VII (fols. 160b-163a). Latin.
26) An electio vi aut metu vel ut aiunt per impressionem facta valida sit et rata. Cap. VIII (fols. 163a-165b; fol. 166 blank). Latin.
27) Queritur An liceat in electione Summi Pontificis excludere modum eligendi per adorationem (fols. 167a-178a; fols. 179-180 blank). Latin. (* This item not included in list of contents at end).
28) Suasoria pro abrogandis quae deviant a. C. ubi periculum de elect. in VI° (fols. 181a-183a; fol. 184 blank, except for abbreviated endorsement on 184b). Latin.
29) [Unheaded; endorsed on fol. 186b:] Per l'udienza d'..... al S. Colegio Sede Vacante per la parte di Cardinale (fols. 185a-185b; fol. 186 blank except for endorsement). Italian.
30) [Unheaded; list of Cardinals of S. Pietro ad Vincula] (fols. 187a-187b). Latin.
Comment: Useful discussion of numerous procedural questions, some touching on the history of the intitution of the conclave. Something of the purely physical aspect of the conclaves is presented in the engraved folding Pianta at fol. 80, which shows the cells assigned to the electors in the Conclave of 2 June, 1667, at the death of Alexander VII.
W.b.132 (26) [The volume has no formal title-page, but a preliminary leaf (added when the Ms was bound?) reads:] Aggiunta alla serie de Conclavi di diversi Papi non consecutivi, parte de quali possono essere duplicati de trascritti altrove, et altri forse anche trovatisi stampati.
2 blank leaves + 215 leaves + 3 blank leaves. The old numeration is highly confused; I follow the new
(penciled) numbering.
Language: Italian, Latin.
Indice: fol. 40b -- Aggiunta alla serie de Conclavi di diversi Papi non consecutivi da Niccolò V ad Urbano VIII, parte de quali possono essere duplicati de trascritti altrove, ed altri forse anche trovansi stampati in fo. (= C. 27. 3).
Contents:
1) Conclave di Papa Nicolo Quinto del 1496 [date crossed through and corrected (in another hand) to 1447] (fols. 3a-9a). Ital.
2) Conclave di Papa Calisto Terzo 1455 (fols. 9a-12b; fol. 13 blank). Ital.
3) Conclave di Pio secondo nell'Anno 1458 (fols. 14a-33b). Ital. (At this point appears some unheaded matter (fols. 34a-36a) which turns out to be the ending pages of item No. 6, below. Fols. 37-39 are blank.)
4) Conclave di Paolo Secondo susseguente a Pio Secondo (fols. 40a-43b). Ital.
5) Conclave Sixti Quarti Anno domini 1471 (fols. 46a-47b). Latin. (Fols. 48-49 blank).
6) Conclavi Innocentii Papae octavi (fols. 50a-55b). Latin. (These are the beginning pages of the Ms described above, No. 3, as ending on fols. 34a-36a.)
7) Conclave Alexandri Sexti Pontificis Maximi, Michaele fieno [?] Midiolanense Aucthore (fols. 56a-63a). Latin.
8) Conclave di Papa Pio Terzo. 1502 (fols. 64a-74b; fol. 75 blank). Ital.
9) Pii Papa Tertii obitus et Julii secundi Concleve [sic] et Creatio (fols. 76a-94a; fols. 95-97 blank. (At the end, fol. 94a, is the notation ‘R. P. D. Ioannes Brucardus episcopus ortanus auctor huius Ceremonialis obiit die 16 Maii M.D.V.’)
10) Conclave di Giulio Secondo dell'anno 1503 (fols. 98a-103b). Ital.
11) Conclave di Papa Gregorio xiii (fols. 104a-108a; fol. 109 blank). Ital. (Account in the form of a letter, dated at end, fol. 108a, ‘Di Roma li 23 di Maggio 1572.’)
12) Conclave di Pio Quinto (fols. 110a-112a; fol. 113 blank). Ital.
13) Copia d'una lettera, che se dice essere stata scritta dal Card. Ludovisio al... Card. Borromeo in proposito della Bolla Publicata da N. S. Gregorio XV sopra l'elettione del nuovo Pontefice (fols. 114a-116b). Ital. (The foregoing title-inscription is on fol. 117b.)
14) Nella sede Vacante di Gregorio XV si ridurrann le Parti in due Capi cio è in Borghesi, e Ludovisi (fols. 118a-125b). Ital.
15) Conclave di Urbano 8 (fols. 126a-135a; fol. 136 blank). Ital. (The piece begins, ‘La fortuna in ogni tempo in Roma fà gran mostra di...’ -- which is the same beginning as in one of the earlier accounts of conclaves; see vol. 20, item No. 4, probably by Mascardi.)
16) Conclave di Gregorio XVo [sic] Urbano VIII (fols. 137a-158a; fols. 159-160 blank). Ital.
17) Conclave di Papa Gregorio XVo (fols. 161a-179b; fols. 180-181 blank). Ital.
18) Conclave di Gregorio XV (fols. 182a-196a; fols. 197-198 blank). Ital.
19) Il Conclave di M, felice Gualtiero à M. Cipriano Saracinello (fols. 199a-213b; fol. 214 blank). Ital. (There is another version of this, entitled ‘Conclavista del Gualtiero,’ in vol. 27.)
20) Conclave di Gregorio XV (fol. 215a). Ital. (An opening paragraph only.)
Comment: The theoretical aspects of the conclave, already apparent in this volume, receive continued and expanded treatment in vol. 27; the two should be read together.
W.b.132 (27) Materie varie spettanti ài Conclavi.
222 leaves + Indice.
Language: Latin, Italian.
Indice: fol. 40b -- Materie varie spettanti a i Conclavi &c. (= C. 27. 4.)
Contents:
1) Modus eligendi Pontifices ab electione Beati Petri usque ad haec tempora (fols. 1a-37b; fol. 38 blank). Latin.
2) Trattato del Conclave (fols. 39a-54b). Ital.
3) Discorso à i Cardinali, che secondano le Fationi de Principi, nel Conclave per escludere, ò eleggere alcuno al Ponteficato (fols. 55a-65a). Ital.
4) Risposta alla sudetta Scrittura (fols. 65a-65b). Ital.
5) Replica (fol. 65b). Ital.
6) Protesta da farsi avanti di venire all'elettione (fols. 66a-66b). Ital.
7) Istruttione Politica sopra li Conclavi (fols. 67a-101a; fol. 102 blank). Ital.
8) Discorso di Francesco Lottino sopra il Conclave (fols. 103a-134b; fols. 135-136 blank). Ital.
9) Aforismi politici per il Conclave (fols. 137a-153b; fols. 154-158 blank). Ital. (In the Index to the volume this is ascribed to Cardinal Azzolino; and the same ascription is made in the Indice of 1728, fol. 9b, where this volume and page are specifically designated: ‘C, 27. pag. 137.’)
10) Conclavista del Gualtieri (fols. 159a-187b). Ital. (Another copy, with variants, exists in No. 19 of vol. 26.)
11) Difesa del Conclavisto del Gualtieri (fols. 188a-206a). Ital.
12) Discorso fatto nel Conclave doppo la morte d'Innocentio Xo intorno l'esclusione di Spagna al Card. Sacchetti, ove si asserisce non doversi elegere uno apertamente escluso da una Corona, benche per altro degnissimo (fols. 207a-213b). Ital.
13) Risposta all'antecedente discorso che dicono fosse fatta dal Cardinal’ Albici (fols. 214a-221b; fol. 222 blank). Ital.
Comment: See preceding volume.
W.b.132 (28) Stefano Infessura (fl. 1494). Stephani Infesturae [sic] Civ. Romani Diaria Rerum Romanorum post Aulam Pontificiam ex Galliis ad Urbem reversam usquè ad Alexandri VI creatione.
3 blank leaves + title page and 1 blank leaf + 177 numbered leaves + 2 blank leaves.
Language: Notwithstanding the Latin title, Infessura’s Diaria is written partly in Italian, thus: Italian, fols. 1a-55a, 70a-99a, 176a-177b; Latin, fols. 55b-69b, 99a-176a.
Indice: fol. 87a -- Infesturae, Stephani, Diaria rerum Romanorum post Aulam Pontificia ex Gallia ad Urbem reversam
usque ad Alexandri VI creationem (= D. 29).
Comment: The Diaria, covering the dates 1371-1494, has been several times published -- by Muratori and others, the most recent edition being that of O. Tommasini (Rome, 1890). Because of Infessura’s strong anti-papal leanings, his text has suffered some excisions at the hands of his Catholic editors. The New Catholic Encyclopedia, art. ‘Infessura', warns that this Roman Liutprand must be read with caution.
W.b.132 (29) John Burchard (or Burchardus, or Broccardo), of Strasburg (d. 1505). Diaria & Ceremoniale Innocentii PP. VIII Auctore Ioanne Broccardo Magistro Ceremoniarum Pars Prima / et Secunda /.
215 leaves + Index rerum memorabilium... ab Anno 1484 usque ad annum 1487. The Ceremoniale occupies fols. 1-59; the Diaria, fols. 60-215.
Language: Latin.
Indice: fol. 20a -- Broccardi Io. Diaria, et Caeremoniale Innoc. VIII, Alexandri VI, Pii III, et Iulii II, ab anno 1484 usque ad anno 1506. Tom. VI (= D. 30). (Since the Indice describes Burchard’s work as being in six ‘tomes’ the compiler obviously considered the two Parts of the present volume to constitute the first two ‘tomes’ and vols. 30-33 the other four.)
W.b.132 (30-33) John Burchard. Diaria (continued; completing the series initiated in vol. 29).
30 Diaria Alexandri PP. VI. Authore Ioanne Bruchardo Prothonotario Apostolico. Tom: I.
377 leaves + Index rerum notatum dignorum... ab anno 1492 ad annum 1497.
Language: Latin.
Indice: See vol. 29.
31 Tomus 2s Diariorum Alexandri VI. Auctore Broccardo.
234 leaves + Index rerum memorabilium... 1497 ad annum 1500.
Language: Latin.
Indice: See vol. 29.
32 Tomus III. Diariorum Alexandri VI. Auctore Brochardo.
219 leaves + Index... ab anno 1500 ad annum 1503.
Language: Latin.
Indice: See vol. 29.
33 Diariorum Ioannis Broccardi Episcopus Hortani Pars ultima.
219 leaves + Index... ab anno 1503 usque ad annum 1506.
Language: Latin.
Indice: See vol. 29.
Comment (vols. 29-33): Besides surviving in numerous MSS, complete or partial, Burchard’s Diary has been published in excerpts since 1696, fully edited in the original Latin text since 1883-85, and in full or partial translations into French, English, and Italian. For the years covered it is a source of great importance. Burchand d. March 16, 1506 and the Diary was continued for another two months by an unidentified person.
W.b.132 (34-39) Paris di Grassi (1470-1528). Diaria et Coeremoniale Iulii PP. II. Auctore Paride de Grassis Pars prima (= vol. 34), 202 leaves + Index; Pars secunda (= vol. 35), 198 leaves + Index; Pars III (= vol. 36), 235 leaves + Index; Pars IV (= vol. 37), 211 leaves + Index (down to 1508); Pars V (= vol. 38), 214 leaves + Index; and Pars sexta (= vol. 39), 232 leaves + Index (to 1513).
Language: Latin.
Indice: fol. 78b -- Grassis, Paridis de, Diaria et Caeremoniale Julii II et Leonis X ab anno 1504 usque ad 1521. Tom. 9 (= Lettera D.). / The ‘Tom. 9’ of this Indice entry includes vols. 40-42, below. /
Comment: The eleven volumes (29-39) of these two series give a fairly full account of activities at the
Papal Court, as seen by the two Masters of Ceremonies, from 1492 to 1513.
W.b.132 (40-42) Paris di Grassi. Diaria et Ceremoniale Leonis PP. X. Auctore Paride de Grassis.
Pars Prima (= vol. 40), 225 leaves + Index; Pars secunda (= vol. 41), 230 leaves + Index (to 1517); Pars 3a (= vol. 42), 217 leaves + Index (to 1521).
Language: Latin.
Indice: See vols. 34-39.
Comment: These three volumes form the chronological sequence to the two preceding series (vols. 29-39) and cover the goings and comings at an important period in the history of the Papal Court, coming almost down to the fateful Sack of 1527. Scattered references in all three series to English representatives and affairs. Christian Gottfried Hoffmann published part of the Diaria et Ceremoniale among his collections of antiquities (Leipzig, 1731-33), and the Diario di Leone X, edited from Vatican MSS, was published in 1884; but there seems to be no modern edition of the complete work.
W.b.132 (43) An unnamed volume consisting principally of (not quite) daily entries from Infessura and other sources, dated, concerning activities of the Court of St. Peter. 152 leaves of text.
Language: Latin.
Indice: From its numbering this volume would seem to be properly placed here among the ‘D’ MSS of the Bagnolo-Forano catalogue of 1728; but if it is there I have not identified it.
Comment: Beginning with folio 47 (Anno 1522) the final two-thirds of the volume cover the sixteenth century. The long entry for 1548 (fols. 85-99) is mostly concerned with the transfer of the Council of Trent to Bologna.
W.b.132 (44) Francesco Mucante (16th cy.) and Giovanni Paolo Mucante (d. 1617). Repertorium in primum et secundum Francisci Mucantii Caerimoniarum Magistri Diariorum Volumen. à Jo. Paulo Mucantio Auctoris fratre pariter Cerimoniarum Magistro ordine Alphabetico compilatum. Ut facilius que in eis continentur reperiri valeant. 157 unnumbered leaves.
Language: Latin.
Indice: fol. 128b -- Mucantii Diaria ampla Pontificis Gregorii XIII ab anno 1572 usque ad 1585. Tom. 3. (= D. 44.) [This is the third volume in the set.]
Comment: Unfortunately, the two volumes of Mucante’s
Diaria, of which this is the index, are lacking from the Strozzi MSS in the Folger. Even so, the entries being rather full, some information may be derived from the volume. [Temp. Gregory XIII and Sixtus V.]
W.b.132 (45) Guido Gualtieri (16th cy.) Sixti V Pont. Opt. M. Ephemerides Guido Gualterio Auctore. 204 leaves.
Language: Latin.
Indice: Folio 82a -- Gualterii, Guidi, Diaria, sive Efemerides Pontificatus Papae Sixti V (= D. 45.)
Comment: Folios 1-11, ‘Ad Lectores’ (the ‘Proemio’), according to BM Catalogue, was published in Archivio storico Italiano, 1842. The text of the Ephemerides begins (anno 1585) on fol. 12 and is apparently still inedited.
W.b.132 (46) Relatione della recuperatione di Ferrara alla Sede Apostolica fatta da Papa Clemente VIII l'anno 1598. 138 leaves.
Language: Italian.
Indice: fol. 35b -- [Clemente VIII] Relazione della recuperazione di Ferrara alla Sede Apostolico
fatta dal detto Sommo Pontefice l'anno 1598. (= R. 184).
Comment: Written in the second year after Clement’s death by an anonymous writer who claims intimate knowledge of all the events.
W.b.132 (47) Diarium eorum, que ab obitu Innocentii Papae X tam intra, quàm extrà Conclave contigerunt usque ad electionem Fabii Card. Ghisii [= Chigi] in Summum Pontificem qui fuit nuncupatus Alexander VII. 264 leaves.
Language: Latin.
Indice: fol. 3b -- [Alessandro VII] Diarium eorum, &c (= D. 47.)
W.b.132 (48) Benedetto Varchi (1503-1565). Istorie di Firenze de suoi tempi di Messer Benedetto Varchi all'Illustrissimo et Eccellentissimo Signore suo Osservandissimo Cosimo Medici Duca II di Fiorenza, e Siena [t.-p. of vol. 48]. 4 blank leaves + 374 leaves + 1 blank leaf.
Language: Italian.
Indice: fols. 195a-195b -- Varchi, Benedetto, Istoria Fiorentina, cominciata l'anno 1527 sino all'anno 1536. Tom. uno legato alla Francese (= H. 48. 1)
-- L'istessa in Tom. 3. (= H. 49. 50. 50.1)
-- Duplicato della medesimo. Tom. 2. (= 49.1. 52.) Here is a rare instance in which the description in the Indice fails to correspond with the volumes actually preserved in the Strozzi Transcriptions. The five volumes here under consideration (vols. 48-52) offer nothing to correspond with the one-tome form ‘legato alla Francese;’ the two-tome form of the Indice is represented by vols. 49-50; and the three-tome form by vols. 48, 51-52.
Comment: For comment on vols. 48-52, see vol. 52, below.
W.b.132 (49) [Istorie, Bks. I-VIII]
3 blank leaves + t.p., verso blank + 784 numbered pages + 7 blank leaves. This vol. repeats the forematter (pp. 1-24) and first eight Books of the Istorie as they appear in vol. 48. Old pagination continues to p. 535, the beginning of Bk. VI; new numbering (in pencil) starts with p. 536. This volume lacks the Strozzi ‘Expecto’ crest.
W.b.132 (50) [Istorie; no t.p.; continues with Bks. IX-XVI].
3 blank leaves + 375 leaves + 4 blank leaves. Fols. 209-210 blank.
W.b.132 (51) [Istorie; no t.p.; continues with Bks. IX-XI]. 3 blank leaves + 287 leaves + 3 blank leaves.
W.b.132 (52) [Istorie; no t.p.; continues with Bks. XII-XVI].
4 blank leaves + 279 leaves + 3 blanks. At end (fol. 279b) reads: ‘Fine dell ‘Istorie di Firenze scritte da Messer Benedetto Varchi.’
Comment (vols. 48-52): As can be seen from the Indice note to vol. 48, these volumes contain two complete sets of the Istorie, one of which (vols. 49-50) was transcribed in 1645 (see entry on fol. 375b of vol. 50). Vol. 50, it should be noted, has many extensive deletions, additions, and corrections written into the margins or pasted in on slips of paper sometimes almost as large as the original leaves.
Varchi, one of the best known of the Florentine historians and humanists, was the author of numerous literary, philological, and other works, of which the Istorie are perhaps the most valuable. Although that work is dedicated to a Medici duke, Varchi was a partisan of the Strozzi during their exile and was for a time tutor to the children of Filippo Strozzi.
The Istorie di Firenze has been several times edited since 1721, and has been translated into French (1765), though apparently not into English.
W.b.132 (53-55) Lorenzo [i.e., Bernardo] Segni (1504-1558). Historia dell Città di Fiorenza dall'anno 1527 fino al 1555 comprendendo ancora molti avvenimenti d'Europa nel sudetto tempo, descritta da Lorenzo Segni Cittadino Fiorentino.
Language: Italian throughout.
Indice: fol. 175 -- Segni, Bernardo, Istoria della Città di Fiorenza dall'anno 1527 fino al 1555, comprendendo ancora molti avvenimenti d'Europa nel sudetto tempo Tom. 3 (= H. 51).
53 5 blank leaves + t.p., above + 1 blank leaf + [209] leaves + 5 blank leaves. (Bks. I-IV). Leaf 170, blank.
54 Historia di Lorenzo Segni Parte Seconda.
4 blank leaves + t.p. (ink-corroded) + 1 blank leaf + [210] leaves (Bks. V-IX) + 9 blank leaves. Leaf 43, blank.
55 Historia della Città di Fiorenza di Lorenzo Segni Parte Terza.
5 blank leaves + t.p. (ink-corroded) + 1 blank leaf + [218] leaves (Bks. X-XV) + 7 blank leaves.
Comment: vol. 53 has an elaborate title page with a partial view of the city of Florence; the separate title pages of vols. 54 and 55 are less elaborate. Segni, whose education prepared him for the law, was well known as a literary figure and member of the Florentine Academy. His Historia was not published until 1723 -- largely because, it is said, his treatment of the private lives of several of the popes was considered too frank. The Medici,
to whom he was basically antipathetic, figure prominently in his account, but general European concerns are also well represented. There is much information about some members of the Strozzi family -- as central to the work, almost, as the Medici themselves. The final Book (Bk. XV) was left incomplete at the death of Segni.
The Historia provides substantial notices of the Emperor Charles V, Niccolò Capponi, Filippo Strozzi, Soliman the Magnificent, Alessandro and Cosimo de’ Medici; Francis I (of France), Piero and Leone Strozzi, Andrea Doria, Philip II (of Spain), and numerous of their contemporaries.
W.b.132 (56) Domenico de’ Rossi (16th cy.) Historia del Sacco di Roma di Domencio de’ Rossi Patritio Fiorentino. Parte 1a [and Pte 2a]. Nella quale si tratta della dispositione delle cose d'Italia avanti il Sacco, e delli accidenti che condussero à cosi miserabil spettacolo Roma.
208 leaves. Pt. 1 = fols. 1-108; Pt. 2 = fols. 110-208.
Language: Italian.
Indice (vols. 56 and 57): There are two somewhat varying entries in the Indice: a) under ‘Roma', fol. 162a -- Istoria del Sacco sotto Borbone &c(= H. 54. 55. 56.1.); and b) under Rossi’s name, fol. 166b -- [title]. ‘Tom. 2.’ (= H. 54. 55.), which suggests that the Transcript volume 57 was not written by Rossi, or not entirely by him.
Comment: English affairs discussed on fols. 19b-20b, 54a. From fol. 45a we learn that the author had also written another work, ‘la mia Monarchia Pontificia.’ Death and eulogy of Giovanni de’ Medici (delle bande neri), fols. 101a-101b.
W.b.132 (57) [Domenico de’ Rossi? Pt. 3, with separate title page]. Del Sacco di Roma parte 3a nella quale si discorre sopra alcuni avvenimenti occorsi in tempo che l'Imperiali tennero occupata Roma, ed altre cose occorse doppo il Sacco [together with Pte 4a.]
202 leaves. Pt. 3 (fols. 1-79a); Pt. 4 (fols. 80a-165a-[202a].)
Comment: The fourth Book or Part, which seems to be separate from the first three Books, treats of
the restoration of the Medici in Florence. Henry VIII’s marriage question and the beginning of the English schism are discussed on fols. 5b-9b; discussion continued on fols. 26b-46a, with an aside on the fall of Wolsey. Other English matters are treated on fols. 174b-175a. I do not find that this Historia has ever been published. The BM Catalogue lists several persons named Domenico de’ Rossi, but this one is not among them.
W.b.132 (58) Leonardo Santori (or Santoro) da Caserta (16th cy.) Historia del Sacco di Roma sotto Borbone seguito l'anno 1527 & dell'assedio di Napoli sotto Lotrecco di Leonardo Santori.
5 blank leaves + 284 leaves + 6 blank leaves; fols. 193-195 blank.
Language: Italian.
Indice: fol. 170b -- Santori, Leonardo, Istoria del Sacco di Roma sotto Borbone seguito l'anno 1527, e dell'assedio di Napoli sotto Lotrecco (= H. 56.1.)
Comment: Only the first 25 or 30 folios are concerned with the sack of Rome; the rest of the Historia deals with various other military exploits of Lautrec [= Odet de Foix, Viscount de Lautrec; d. 1528] and the invading forces in Italy. About three-fourths of the way through the volume [fol. 196] there occur three blank leaves, followed (to end) by a ‘Compendio Historico di varii avvertimenti occorsi dall'anno 1526 sino al 1536’ -- a separate work, probably not by Santoro and perhaps unpublished. There are rather full (and, occasionally, valuable) marginalia in the first work, which was published at Naples in 1858 under the care of S. Volpicella.
W.b.132 (59) Varie Relazioni di Alcuni Ambasciatori Veneti ritornati da Roma, e d'altre Corti di Europa negl'ultimi Tempi.
415 leaves + Indice (fols. 417a-417b).
Language: Italian in each relazione.
Indice: This general title seems not to be entered in the 1728 listing; see individual titles under Contents, below.
Contents (and comment):
1) Relazione fatta nel Senato Veneto dall'Eccellentissimo Signore Giovanni Sagredo [1617-1682] ritornato Ambasciatore Straordinario d'Inghilterra l'anno 1654. (Folios 1a-22b mostly concern Cromwell and his affairs). Indice: R. 196.1 pag. 1.
2) Relatione fatta nel Senato Veneto dall'Eccellentissimo Signore Giovanni Sagredo Cavaliere, ritornato dall'Ambasciata Ordinaria di Vienna l'anno 1665. Fols. 23a-44b: war against the Turk. Indice: fol. 168b -- Relazione, &c. (= R. 196.1. pag. 23.)
3) Relatione fatta nel Senato Veneto dall'Illustrissimo, et Eccellentissimo Signore Catarin Belegno [b. 1632] nel suo ritorno dall'Ambasciaria ordinaria di Savoia l'anno 1666. Indice: fol. 15b -- Relazione, &c. (= R. 196.1. pag. 45). Fols. 45a-69b: concerning people, places, government of the Piedmont.
4) Relazione di Pietro Basadonna [1617-1684] Ambasciatore per la Serenissima Republica di Venezia appresso la Santità di Nostro Signore Papa Alessandro VII (fols. 71a-142). Indice: fol. 14b -- Relazione, &c. (= R. 196. pag. 71). Contains a pen-portrait, a.o., of Sforza Pallavicino (see. fol. 83a ff.)
5) Relatione della Corte di Roma del Signor Cavagliere Pietro Mocenigo [fl. 1675] presentata in Senato nel ritorno dalla sua Ambasciata di Roma di Novembre dell'anno 1675 (fols. 143a-208a). Indice: fol. 124b -- Relazione, &c. (= R. 196.1. pag. 143).
6) Transunto della Relatione del Cavaliere Domenico Contarini [17th cy.] ritornato dà Francia (fols. 209a-216b). Indice: fol. 42b -- Transunto, &c. (= R. 196.1. pag. 209).
7) Compendio di Relatione dell'Eccellentissimo Signore Sebastian Foscarini [17th century] fù Ambasciator in Francia, e letta l'anno 1688 (fols. 217a-230b; fol. 231 blank). Indice: fol. 60b -- Compendio, &c. (= R. 196.1. pag. 217).
8) Relazione fatta, e recitata in Senato dall’ Eccellentissimo Signore [Giovanni] Morosini nella sua Ambascieria fatta in Francia (fols. 232a-260a). Indice: 128a -- Relazione, &c. (= R. 196.1. pag. 232). Although this Morosini is not otherwise identified in the Ms, the Indice calls him Giovanni -- presumably the Giovanni (di Alvise) Morosini whose dates are given in Ferrari’s Onomasticon as 1633-1682.
9) Relazione della Corte di Roma fatta dà Nicolò Sagredo [d. 1676] nel ritorno della sua Ambasciaria per la Republica di Venezia appresso Papa Innocenzo Xo 1651 (fols. 261a-271b). Indice: fol. 168b -- Relazione, &c. (= R. 196.1. pag. 261).
10) Relatione di Roma del Signore Antonio Grimani [fl. ca. 1668] Ambasciator Veneto à Clemente IX (fols. 272b-344a; fols. 345351 blank).
Indice: fol. 82a -- Relazione, &c. (= R. 196.1. pag. 272).
11) Relazione di Francia del Signore Girolamo Venier [b. 1650] Ambasciator Veneto. 1689 (fols. 352a-386b; fol. 387 blank). Indice: fol. 199b Relazione, &c. (= R. 196.1. pag. 352).
12) Relatione del Cavalier Erizzo [fl. 1703] Ambasciatore Veneto ad Innocenzio XIIo e Clemente XIo fatta l'anno 1703 (fols. 388a-415a). Indice: Relazione, &c. -- fol. 51b (= R. 196.1. pag. 388). The Index to the volume omits (fol. 417) two of these twelve relazioni.
W.b.132 (60,62) Pietro Nores (16th cy?) Historia de’ Carafeschi, e della Guerra, che hebbe Paolo IV con il Rè di Spagna, e con l'Imperatore. Libri quattro descritti da Pietro Nores.
60 Books I & II; 5 blank leaves + 235 leaves + 6 blank leaves.
62 Books III & IV; 5 blank leaves + 283 leaves + 6 blank leaves.
Language: Italian.
Indice: fol. 135a -- Nores, Pietro, Istoria Carafeschi, e della Guerra che ebbe Paolo IV col Rè di Spagna, e coll'Imperatore libri 4 a quali sono annessi alcuni Capitoli di Lettere scritte a Venezia dell'Ambasciator Amulio [?Marcantonio, 1505-1572] appresso Pio IV intorno alla Prigionia, processo, e morte del Card. [Carlo] Caraffa [1517-1561], ed altri Nipoti di Papa Paolo IV l'anno 1562 ed una distinta Relazione della sudetta esecuzione. Tom. 2. (= H. 57).
Comment: The ‘Capitoli di Lettere scritte dall'Ambasciatore Amulio’ (vol. 62, fols. 230a-258b) constitute a separate work (with separate entry in the Indice: fol. 6b). The ‘distinta Relazione’ mentioned above is on fols. 259a-262b and is followed by a ‘Discorso in discolpa de delitti apposti al Cardinale Carlo Carafa Composto dal Dottore, et Avvocato suo Gio. Felice Scalaleone [d. 1574] Napolitano.’ Fol. 280 blank. Vol. 62 ends with a ‘Supplica per il Cardinal Carafa a Papa Pio IVo’ (fols. 281a-283b).
Nores’ Historia has been printed (whether consulting this Ms or not is uncertain) in Archivie storico italiano, tom. 12 (1842), as Storia della guerra di Paolo IV sommo pontefice contro li Spagnuoli corredata di documenti, with a preface by L. Scarabelli and notes by Scipio Volpicella; see BM Catalogue.
W.b.132 (61) Diario di tutto il Concilio di Trento. Con alcune Istruttioni de Principi a loro Ambasciadori. 3 blank leaves + 413 leaves + 3 blanks.
Language: Italian, Latin, Spanish.
Indice: fol. 38b -- Diario, &c. (= H. 59. 2.)
Contents: The Diario, divided into eight Books, occupies the first half (fols. 1-189) of the volume and is then succeeded by the following separate items:
1) Sommario estratto per varii avvisi di diversi lochi sopra la Consultatione del Concilio in Germania dato dal Cardinale d'Augusta 1560 (fols. 190a-194a; fol. 195 blank).
2) Istruttione data da Monsignore Comendone à i Legati del Concilio di Trento sopra le cose trattate coll'Imperatore Carlo Vo 1563. 19 di febraro (fols. 196a-206b; fol. 207 blank).
3) Ricordi appartati de’ legati á Monsignore Delfino Nuntio all'Imperatore. 2 Aprile 1562 (fols. 208a-211b).
4) Proposte fatte da N. S. alla Maestà dell'Imperadore, et le risposte. 1560 (fols. 212a-213b). Text in Latin.
5) Copia d'alcune proposte fatte de gl'Ambasciadori Cesarei alli legati del Concilio. 5 Marzo 1562 (fols. 214a-216a). Text in Latin.
6) Istanze de gl'Ambasciadori Cesarei alli legati del Concilio pro reformatione &c. 5 Martii 1562 (fol. 216b). Fol. 217 blank. Text in Latin.
7) Risposta de Legati alle proposte de gl'Ambasciatori Cesarei. A di 9 di Marzo 1562 (fols. 218a-218b; fol. 219 blank). Text in Latin.
8) Copia di quello, che hanno scritto li Reverendissimi Legati, al Nuntio Delfino, che tratti con l'Imperatore à nome Loro 7. Aprile 1562 (fols. 220a-226b; 227 blank). Italian.
9) Li Legati del Concilio al Nuntio Delfino sopra le petitioni dell'Imperatore dannandole. Giugno 1562 (fols. 228a-233b). Ital.
10) Scrittura dell'Imperatore alli Legati del Concilio di Trento 9. luglio 1562 (fols. 234a-249b). Text in Latin.
11) Risposta de legati alla Maestà Cesarea 22. iulii 1562 (fols. 250a-254a; fol. 255 blank). Text in Latin.
12) Scrittura di Lansach alli Legati del Sacrosanto Concilio di Trento x Aug. 1562 (fols. 256a-257a). Text in Latin.
13) Sommario di quello ha detto il Ferrerio Ambasciadore di Francia in Concilio 23 Settembre 1563 (fols. 258a-259b). Text in Latin.
14) Risposta del Vescovo de Grassi all'Oratione del Ferrerio Ambasciadore di Francia. 23 Settembre 1563 (fols. 260a-263b). Text in Latin.
15) Traduttione della Scrittura portata dall'Abbate di Manna in nome del Rè Christianissimo à Nostro Signore (fols. 264a-275b; fols. 276-277 blank). Italian.
16) Risposta data da Nostro Signore all'Abbate Manna. 1560 (fols. 278a-279b). Ital.
17) [Another] Risposta di Nostro Signore all'Abbate Manna 1560 (fols. 280a-283a). Ital.
18) La Majestad Cattolica a su Embasador en 30. Marzo 1562. Sobre la clausula Proponentibus Legatii (fols. 284a-289a; fols. 290-293 blank). Text in Spanish -- of a sort.
19) La Maestà Cattolica al suo Ambasciatore nella lettera di 30. di Marzo 1562. Sopra la continuatione del Concilio di Trento 30. Marzo 1562 (fols. 294a-295b; fols. 296-297 blank). Ital.
20) Lettera delli Legati del Concilio al Rè Cattolico 2. Maggio 1562 (fols. 298a-309b). Ital.
21) Scrittura data dal Signore / Lorenzo / Pérez al Re Cattolico per giustificatione del Papa sopra le parole Proponentibus legatis 22. di Giugno 1562 (fols. 310a-314a; fol. 315 blank). Ital.
22) Scrittura data in Concilio da alcuni Vescovi Spagnuoli, e Portughesi, che hanno Dignità nelle loro Chiese xxiii Julii 1562 (fols. 316a-317a). Text in Latin.
23) Raggionamento fatto col Rè Cattolico circa il Proponentibus Legatis, e la continuatione del Concilio. Del Signore Lorenzo Perez 24. di Luglio 1562 (fols. 318a-333a). Ital.
24) Lettera de’ Prelati Spagnuoli al Rè Cattolico li x. di Agosto 1562 (fols. 334a-339a; fols. 340-341 blank). Text in Spanish.
25) Petitiones Portugallenses cum responsionibus Papae Portogallo 2. Settembre 1562 (fols. 342a-347b). Text in Latin.
26) Instruttione di Sua Maestà Cattolica à D. Antonio di Toledo Prior di Lione del suo Conseglio di Stato &c intorno al Concilio generale. Data in Toledo ii settembre 1560 (fols. 348a-353a). Ital.
27) Quello, che il Signore D. Antonio di Toledo espose al Rè Christianissimo in nome de Rè Cattolico sopra il divertire il Concilio nationale di Francia. 1560 20. Settembre (fols. 354a-362b; fol. 363 blank). Ital.
28) Sommario della Riforma, che domandano li Spagnuoli 24. di Settembre (fols. 364a-366b; fol. 367 blank). Text in Latin (fols. 364a-365a) and in Spanish (fols. 365a-366b).
29) Relatione del Clarissimo Antonio Soriano Oratore in Roma per l'Illustrissima Repubblica di Venetia concernente la materia del Concilio di Trento (fols. 368a-413a). Ital. (Printed in Albèri, serie 2, vol. 3.)
Comment: The Diario is sketchy but makes some attempt to trace the history of the Council from the early false starts on down; the documents relate exclusively to the last years of the Council -- with the exception of Soriano’s Relatione (item 29). The temper of the Diario and of the accompanying documents is subtly but substantially anti-curial, anti-papal.
W.b.132 (63) Antonio Milledoni [fl. 1563]. Dell'Historia del Sacro Concilio di Trento Scritta da Antonio Milledoni Secretario del Consiglio de X. di Venetia in detto Concilio Lib: II. 175 leaves.
Language: Italian.
Indice: fol. 124a -- Istoria del Sacro Concilio, &c. (= H. 59. 1.)
Comment: Book I (fols. 1-76; fol. 77 blank); Book II (fols. 78a-175b). Book I traces the history of general (and other) councils prior to Trent and tells the order of calling and proceeding. Book II is devoted entirely to the (very sketchy) “history” of the sessions of the Tridentine Council. This may be the work which was edited by A. Baschet (Paris, 1870) as Journal du Concile de Trente rédigé par un secrétaire Vénetien [A. Milledonne] present aux sessions de 1562 a 1563...; see BM Catalogue.
W.b.132 (64-67) Giovambattista Rinalducci [17th cy.]. Dell'Una & l'altra guerra di Castro & de gli altri casi di quella Città, e suoi Stati sotto li Pontefici Urbano VIII, Innocenzio X, & Alessandro VII. Libri XII distributi in due Tomi Scritti da Giovambattista Rinalducci, et offerti al Serenissimo Ferdinando II [de’ Medici, 1610-1670] Gran Duca di Toscana.
The 4-volume distribution of the Ms in the Strozzi Transcripts (the 12 Books and ‘due Tomi’ of the title) is the following:
64 Books I-III (fols. 1-379; fol. 380 numbered but blank).
65 Books VII-IX (fols. 1-358).
66 Books IV-VI (fols. 381-741; fol. 742 numbered but blank).
67 Books X-XI (fols. 361-662; fol. 663 prospectus of Book XII).
Language: Italian.
Indice: fol. 30a -- Castro, cioè dell'una, e dell’ altra Guerra, &c. (= H. 59.1 59.2 59.3 59.4).
Comment: On fol. 663a of vol. 67 appears the prospectus for Book XII, followed by the scribe’s statement that he had but eleven Books before him to copy and doubted that the twelfth was ever written.
I do not find that this Ms has been published.
W.b.132 (68) [Lorenzo Strozzi (1523 1482-1571 49)]. Vita di Filippo di Filippo Strozzi.
128 leaves; no formal t.p.; heading above on fol. 1.
Language: Italian.
Indice: No entry.
Comment: Although the Indice does not list it, the volume does carry the ducal ‘Expecto’ crest and therefore obviously belongs in the collection. Perhaps it was added after compilation of the catalogue in 1728. Oddly, whereas the Indice has ample entries for the Medici family, the biographical and genealogical volumes for the Strozzi find no place in it. See comment on vol. 162.
W.b.132 (69) Andrea Dandolo (1307-1354). Cronicon Andraeae Danduli Ducis Venetiarum. 3 blank leaves + 493 leaves + 5 blank leaves.
Language: Latin.
Indice: fol. 46a -- Danduli, Andreae, Ducis Venetiarum, Chronicon in q. (= H. 59.6).
Comment: A history of Venice down to ca. 1300, written in seven ‘Books.’ This is the major chronicle, first published by L.A. Muratori, Rerum italicarum scriptores, tom. 12 (1728). Andrea Dandolo, one of several members of his family to hold the office, was Doge of Venice from 1343 to 1354, the year of his death.
W.b.132 (70) Giovanni della Casa (1503-1556), part author. Istruttioni e lettere di Monsignor della Casa à nome del Signor Cardinale [Gian Pietro] Caraffa, dove si contiene il principio della rottura trà Paolo IV e l'Imperatore. L'anno 1555. e tutto il negotiato di Francia per essa Guerra. 263 leaves.
Language: Italian, Latin, Spanish.
Indice: fol. 29b -- Istruzioni, &c. (= I. 60.)
Comment: This miscellany of documents covers the years 1555-1561. How much of it della Casa had a hand in is hard to determine -- perhaps only those items belonging to the year 1555. A seven-page Index at the end lists 109 separate documents, mostly in Italian, though eight are in Latin and four in Spanish. Of interest to English readers: on fols. 112a-113b occurs an ‘Instruttione del Card: Caraffa data al R. Fantuccio per la Corte d'Inghilterra.’ The list of senders of recipients of letters or instructions is long, some of the more eminent being the Duke of Ferrara, the Constable of France, the Cardinal of Ferrara, Pope Paul IV, the King of France, the Cardinal of Lorraine, the Duchess of Valentinois, the Duke of Alva, and King Philip II of Spain. (A great many others).
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71 ... da i Pontefici Giulio III. Paolo III. e Sisto IV. 200 leaves.
Language: Italian, Latin.
Indice: fol. 77b -- Istruzioni varie, &c. (= I. 61.)
Contents:
1) Iulius PP. III. Instruttione data à Monsignor d'Imola l'ultimo di marzo 1551. per l'Imperatore (fols. 1a-8a). Italian. (Indice: fol. 77b).
2) Iulius Papa 3s. Instruttione, e memoriale dato al Signore Ascanio per il Rè Christianissimo. Li 25 di Aprile 1551 (fols. 9a-13a). Indice: fol. 77b -- [Istruzioni, &c.] (= I. 61. pag. 9).
3) Iulius Papa 3s. Informatione data à Monsignor di Monluch per il Re Christianissimo. Li VI di Luglio 1551 (fols. 13a-16b). Ital. Indice: fols. 77b, 127a -- Istruzione, &c. (= I. 61. pag. 13).
4) Iulius Papa 3s. Instruttione per il Signor Giovanni Battista Monti mandato con Lettere dell'ultimo di Maggio nel 1551 (fols. 16b-17b). Ital. Indice: fol. 77b. -- Istruzione per il Signor Gio. Batt. Monti, &c. (= I. 61. pag. 16).
5) Iulius PP. 3s. Instruttione data à Monsignor Montepulciano Tesoriere per l'Imperatore li 22 di Giugno 1551 (fols. 18a-23b). Ital. Indice: fol. 77b -- [Istruzione] A Monsignor Montepulciano, &c. (= I. 61. pag. 18).
6) Aggiunta all'Instruttione mandata al Tesoriere li 22 di Luglio 1551 (fols. 24a-25a). Ital.
Indice: Apparently not treated by Indice as separate from the preceding item.
7) Memoriale commune per il Signor Duca di Firenze, et per il Signor D. Diego dato al Camaiano alli XIIII di Luglio 1551 (fols. 25a-26b). Ital. Indice: Memoriale commune, &c. fol. 77b -- (= I. 61. pag. 25).
8) Memoriale dato al Camaiano alli xiiii di Luglio per gl'Infrascritti [various persons] (fols. 27a-28b). Ital. Indice: fol. 77b -- Altro memoriale, &c. (= I. 61. pag. 27).
9) Instruttione per il Vescovo di Viterbo col Rè Christianissimo (fols. 29a-30b). Ital. Indice: Istruzione, &c. (= I. 61. pag. 29).
10) Iulius Papa III. Instruttione data à Monsignor Achille de Grassi per Venetia Li 23 d'Agosto 1551 (fols. 31a-41a). Ital. Indice: fol. 78b -- Grassi, &c. (= I. 61. pag. 31).
11) Lista data à parte al Camaiano Li X Ottobre 1551 (fols. 41b-44b). Ital. Indice: fol. 23b -- Camaiano, Monsignor Pietro, Avvertimenti datigli da Giulio III per l'Imperatore li 10 ottobre 1551 (= I. 61. pag. 51). (A list of persons at the Emperor’s Court to be trusted and treated with respect as serviceable to Julius.)
12) Avvertimenti dati al Cardinale Verallo per il Rè Christianissimo alli iii di Ottobre 1551 (fols. 44b-47a). Ital. Indice: fol. 200a -- [Verallo] Avvertimenti, &c. (= I. 61. pag. 45).
13) Iulius Papa 3s. Instruttione data al Card. Verallo per il Rè Christianissimo alli 3 di Ottobre 1551 (fols. 47a-51b). Ital. Indice: Apparently omitted in the Indice as being part of the preceding item.
14) Iulius Papa 3s. Instruttione data à Monsignor Camaiano Nostro Cameriere Li x di 8bre 1551 (fols. 51b-57b). Ital. Indice: fol. 23b -- Camaiano, Pietro, Istruzione, &c. (=I. 61. pag. 51.)
15) Instruttione al Card. Farnese, che fù Papa Paolo 3o mandato a Carlo V da Clemente 7o doppo il Sacco di Roma (fols. 58a-97b). Ital. Indice: fol. 34b -- Istruzione, &c. (= I. 61. pag. 58).
16) Instructio data Reverendissimo Cardinali Contareno in Germaniam Legato die 25 Januarii Paulus Papa 3s (fols. 98a-113a). Latin. Indice: fol. 141b -- Instructio data, &c. (= I. 61. pag. 98.) Date at end: 1541.
17) Provisioni per la guerra che disegno Papa Clemente 7o contro l'Imperatore Carlo Quinto (fols. 114a-120b). Ital. Indice: fol. 34b -- Provvisioni della Guerra, &c. (= I. 61. pag. 114).
18) Avvertimenti al Cardinal Farnese per il Conclave nella morte di Papa Paolo Terzo (fols. 121a-130a). Ital. Indice: fol. 54b -- Avvertimenti, &c. (= I. 61. pag. 121).
19) Instruttione per Spagna nell'andata di Monsignor Illustrissimo e Reverendissimo Card. Farnese à visitare l'Imperatore per la morte dell'Imperatrice alli 19 di Maggio 1539 (fols. 131a-134b). Ital. Indice: fol. 54b -- Istruzione per Ispagna, &c. (= I. 61. pag. 131). (Divided into Capi publici, capi privati, and capi di cose particolari di Casa. Among these last are instructions to far officio for the children of Pietro Strozzi.)
20) Sixtus Papa 4s. Instructiones pro Domino Cardinali S. Marci in Germaniam à Sanctissimo Domino Nostro Sixto 4° Pont. Maximo, nec non Ungariam, et Poloniam Legato Designato (fols. 135a-139a). Latin. Indice: fol. 178a -- Instructio, &c. (=I. 61. pag. 139). Incomplete; see vol. 72, item 3 (p.58, below)
21) Instruttione di Sisto Papa 4° data à Monsignor Antonio Crivello mandato suo Nuntio al Rè di Francia (fols. 139b-151a). Italian. Indice: fol. 178a -- [Istruzione] a Monsr Anto Crivello, &c. (= I. 61. pag. 139).
22) Sixtus Papa 4s. Instructio pro Domino Joanne Herseman Nuntio Apostolico in Scotiam ituro (fols. 151b-153a). Latin. Indice: fol. 84b -- Instructio Sixti IV, &c. (= I. 61. pag. 151).
23) Sixtus Papa 4s. Instructio de agendis Sixti 4i nomine per Reverendissimum Episcopum Aleriensis iterum ad partes Germaniae anno 1477. Ibit primò ad Serenissimum Imperatorem quem visitabit impartiendo salutationem, et benedictionem nomine Serenissimi Domini Nostri (fols. 153b-162a). Latin. Indice: fol. 178a -- [Instructio] Pro Episcopo Alerien., &c. (= I. 61. pag. 153).
24) Sixtus Papa 4s. Instructiones de novo mittendo R. D. Urso Episcopo Theanensi Apostolico Nuntio, et Oratori ad Caesaream maiestatem pro tractanda Concordia (fols. 162b-166b). Latin. Indice: fol. 178a -- Instructiones D. Urso, &c. (= I. 61. pag. 160).
25) Sixtus Papa Quartus. Instructiones pro Reverendo Domino Episcopo Theanensi Nuntio, et Oratore Apostolico in Germaniam, et primo ad ea quae agenda sunt in Conventu Norimbergensi (fols. 167a-171a). Latin. Indice: fol. 178a -- Instructiones, &c. (= I. 61. pag. 160).
26) Sixtus Papa 4s. Responsio ad Instructiones datas per Ven. Dominum Broccardum, Domino Henrico Molliso misso per ipsum ad San. D. N. (fols. 171a-183b). Latin. Indice: fols. 178a-178b -- Responsio, &c. (= I. 61. pag. 170).
27) Sixtus Papa 4s. Credentia Gallorum Regis. Ad Sixtum Sanctitatis Postulationem in scriptis redacta (fols. 184a-197a). Latin. Indice: fol. 61b -- Credentia Gallorum Regis, &c. (= I. 61. pag. 184).
28) Sixtus Papa 4s. Instructio Sixti Papae 4i nomine Prothonotario de Agnellis data ad Imperatorem Nuncio designato (fols. 197b-211a). Latin. Indice: fol. 178b -- Instruction Prothonotario, &c. (= I. 61. pag. 197).
72 Volume II del [sic] Instruttioni de’ Nuntii, e Ministri della Sede Apostolica, mandati da Papa Sisto IV. Alessandro VI. e Giulio II.
Paging continuous with that of vol. 71; fols. 211 [repeated]-427.
Language: Although the title is in Italian, all the documents are in Latin.
Indice: No separate entry for the second volume; individual entries given as for volume 71.
Contents:
2) Sixtus Papa 4s. Instructio Sixti Papae 4i pro Domino Archiepiscopo Regen. Oratore, et Nuntio Apostolico cum potestate de latere Legati per omnem Provinciam Livoniae (fols. 220b-225a). Latin (as throughout). Indice: fol. 178b.
1) Sixtus Papa 4s. Instructio Sixti Papae 4i pro Episcopo Ratisbonensi ad Imperatorem (fols. 211a bis-220b). Indice: fol. 178b (= I. 62.)
3) Sixtus 4s. Instructiones pro Domino Cardinali Sancti Marci in Germaniam à Sanctissimo Domino Nostro Sixto 4° Pont. Maximo nec non Hungariam et Poloniam Legato Designato (fols. 225b-237a). (Dated at end 20 May 1572 -- an impossible date). Indice: fol. 178b -- [Instructio] Pro Card. S. Marci, &c. (= [I. 62.] pag. 225). Vol. 71, See above, item 20.
4) Sixtus Papa 4s. De Pace inter Imperatorem, et Regem Hungariae Instructiones Sixti Papae Quarti. Datae Episcopo Theanensi Nuntio, et Oratori Apostolico (fols. 237b-245b). Indice: fol. 178b -- [Instructiones] Pro Episcopo Theanensi, &c. (= [I. 62.] pag. 237). Dated: xv Dec. 1475.
5) Sixtus Papae 4s. Instructiones datae perSanctissimum D. N. Sixtum Papam 4m Reverendo Domino Episcopo Cretensi, cum potestate Legati de Latere Or [dinari?] ad Coloniam, et partes Rheni profecturo pro pace in Principes tractanda 1475 (fols. 246a-253a). Indice: fol. 178b -- [Instructiones] Pro Episcopo Cretensi, &c. (= [I. 62] pag. 246.
6) Sixtus Papa 4s. Instructio pro Foroliviensi, et Aleriensi Episcopis de his, quae acturi sunt pro Liberatione Reverendissimi Roberti Archiepiscopi Coloniensis 1478 (fols. 253b-257a). Indice: fol. 178b -- [Instructio] Pro Foroliviensi et Aleriensi Episcopis, &c. (= [I. 62.] pag. 253).
7) Sixtus Papa 4s. Instructiones datae eid. Domino Episcopo Sibicensi Nuncio ad Caesarem maiestatem pro Sixti Papa 4° (fols. 257b-261b).
Indice: fol. 178b -- [Instructiones] Pro Episcopo
Sibicensi, &c. (= [I. 62.] pag. 257).
8) Sixtus Papa 4s. Instructiones datae nomine S. D. N. Sixti 4i Dominis Ludovico de Agnellis Protonotario Apostolico, et Antonio de Frassis Sacri Palatii causarum Auditore ad maiestatem Imperialem S. D. Nostri Oratoribus 1478 (fols. 262a-265b). Dated at end 1 Dec. 1478. Indice: fol. 178b -- [Instructiones] Pro Ludovico de Agnellis, et Antonio de Frassis ad Maestatem Imperialem Oratoribus anno 1478 (=[I. 62.] pag. 262).
9) Sixtus Papa 4s. Instructio pro Reverendo D. Prospero Camulio Episcopo Catanensi Nuntio ad Imperatores pro concordanda Ecclesiae Costantiensi differentia, hac tamen conditione, ut si Episcopus Aleriensis aliquid concluserit, aut esset in conditione, non interrumpat eius acta; alias exequatur ut infra sequitur (fols. 266a-270b). Indice: fols. 178b-179a -- [Instructio] Pro Domino Prospero Camulio, &c. (= [I. 62.] pag. 266.
10) Sixtus Papa Quartus. Instructiones pro Reverendo Domino L. Episcopo Sibicensi Sanctissimi D. N. Sixti PP. Quarti ad Illustrissimum Ducem Burgundiae Nuntio, et Oratore misso die 25 Februarii 1476 (fols. 271a-281b). Indice: fol. 179a -- [Instructiones] Pro Episcopo Sibicensi, &c. (= [I. 62.] pag. 271).
11) Sixtus Papa Quartus Instructio data de mandato Sixti Papae Quarti Joanni de Duchis Protonotario Apostolico Sanctorum Nazarii, et Celsi Buxiensi Nuntio ad visitanda monasteria Emerani Ratisbonensis, et in Ottemburgh Augustensis Diocesibus Anno 1477. (fols. 282a-283a). Indice: fol. 179a -- [Instructio] Pro Jo. de Duchis Nuntio ad visitanda Monasteria Emerani Ratisbonensi, et in Ottemburgh Augustensi Diecesii [sic] anno 1477 (= [I. 62.] pag. 282).
12) Sixtus Papa Quartus Instructiones datae R. P. D. Joanni Andreae de Grimaldis Referendario et Economo Sanctissimi D. N. Sixti Divina providentia Papae Quarti Profecturo ad Serenissimum Dominum Ludovicum Francorum Rege Christianissimo nomine suae Sanctitatis (fols. 283b-287a). Indice: fol. 179a -- Instructio D. Jo. And. Grimaldi, &c. (= [I. 62.] pag. 283).
13) Sixtus Papa Quartus Sixti Quarti Pont. Maximi Instructiones pro Reverendo Domino Nicolao Episcopo Mutinensi eunti ad Partes Galliae (fols. 287b-297b). Dated 13 August, 1475. Indice: fol. 179a -- [Instructiones] Pro D. Nicolao Episcopo Mutinensi eunti ad partes Galliae (= [I. 62.] pag. 287).
14) Instructio Sanctissimi Domini Nostri Pauli Papae Quarti pro Illustrissimo Cardinali Trivultio ad Henricum Gallorum Regem (fols. 298a-301b).
Indice: fol. 142a -- Instructio pro Cardinali Trivultio, &c. (= I. 62. pag. 298).
16) Instructiones pro Illustrissimo et Reverendissimo Cardinali Caraffa ad Phillipum Hispaniarum Regem (fols. 315a-325a). Indice: [Instructiones] Pro Card. Caraffa, &c. (= [I. 62.] pag. 315).
15) Instructio pro Illustrissimo Domino Cardinali de Pisis ad Imperatorem, et Phillipum Regem (fols. 302a-314a). Indice: [Instructio] Pro Card. de Pisis, &c. (= [I. 62.] pag. 302).
17) Alexander Papa VI. Instructiones datae nobis Venerabili fratri Joanni Archiepiscopo, ac dilectis filiis Hadriano Castellensi Prothonotario ac Apostolicae Camera Clerico, et Secretario nostro domestico, et Raymundo Centellensi Protonotario et Thesaurario Perusino nostris, et Apostolicae Sedis ad Ludovicum Francorum Regem Christianissimum Nunciis et Oratoribus (fols. 325b-331b). Indice: Instructiones Io. Episcopo Ragusino, &c. (= I. 62. pag. 325).
18) Alexander Papa VI. Instructiones datae ab Alexandro P. P. VI Reverendo Episcopo Tiburtino ad Dominium Venetorum Oratori delegato, pro Liberatione Reverendi Domini Cardinalis Ascanii Vicecancellarii Venetiis detenti (fols. 332a-338b). Dated 4 May, 1500. Indice: fol. 3b -- [Instructiones] Pro Episcopo Tiburtino, &c. (= [I. 62.] pag. 332).
19) Alexander Papa VI. Instructiones dilecto filio nostro Ray[mundo?] tit. Sancte Mariae Novae Praes[bite?]ro Cardinali ad Carissimum in Christo filium nostrum Maximilianum Romanum Regem Electores Principes Sac. Rom. Imperii, et nat. GermanicamuLegato Nostro (fols. 339a-352b).
Indice: fol. 3b -- [Instructiones] Pro Raymundo Card. S. Mariae Novae, &c. (= [I. 62] pag. 339).
20) Iulius Papa Secundus. Instructiones datae Reverendo Episcopo Aretino, Prelato domestico ad Regem, et Reginam Hispaniarum cum potestate Legatis de Latere Nuntio, et Oratori (fols. 353a-373b). Dated 14 March, 1504. Indice: fol. 93b -- Instructiones pro Episcopo Aretino, &c. (= I. 62. pag. 353).
21) Instructiones pro Papa Eugenio 4o. datae Nunciis missis ad Principes Christianos contra Congregationem Basiliensem (fols. 374a-427b).
Indice: Instructiones datae Nunciis missis ad Principes Xnos contra Congregationem Basilicensem -- fol. 52b (= I. 62. pag. 374).
73 [Continuation of] Instruttioni della Sede Apostolico.
219 leaves + Index. The volume begins a new numbering.
Language: All items in Italian.
Indice: No separate general entry; see vol. 71.
Contents:
1) Instruttione al Cardinal Ginnetti Legato à latere di Papa Urbano VIII dal quale fù spedito del 1636 per essere mediatore nel trattato della pace universale, che dovevasi tenere conforme lo stabilimento dei Principi in Colonia (fols. 1-165). Indice: fol. 75a -- Ginetti, Card., cioè Istruzione al medesimo Legato a Latere d'Urbano VIII l'anno 1636 per la Pace di Colonia (= I. 63. pag. 1).
2) Instruttione à Monsignor Borghese Auditor della Camera mandato dalla Santità di Nostro Signore Papa Clemente VIII al Rè Filippo (fols. 166-186). (Dated at end, 6 Oct., 1593).
Indice: fol. 19a -- Borghese, Monsignore Auditore della Camera, cioè Istruzione di Clemente VIII al medesimo mandato Nunzio in Spagna a Filippo II l'anno 1593 (= I. 63. pag. 166).
3) Instruttione à Monsignor Zaccaria Delfino destinato Nuntio straordinario in Germania all'Imperatore Ferdinando Primo da Papa Pio Quarto nell’ [anno] 1560. Per il negotio del Concilio di Trento, qual Prelato fù dal medesimo Pontefice fatto Cardinale del 1565 a di 12. di Marzo (fols. 187-204). Indice: fol. 47a -- Delfino, Monsignor Zaccheria, cioè Istruzione al medesimo destinato Nunzio Straordinario in Germania da Pio IV all’ Imperatore Ferdinando I l'anno 1560 circa gli affari del Concilio di Trento (= I. 63. pag. 187).
4) Instruttione circa li riguardi, che deve havere un Nepote di Papa Regnante per quelli sogetti, che vuol’ promovere al Cardinalato, acciò possi meglio stabilire la sua futura grandezza (fols. 205-213b). Indice: fol. 134b -- Nipote cioè Istruzione de riguardi, che deve avere un Nipote di Papa per quelli, che vuol promuovere al Cardinalato (= I. 63. pag. 205).
5) Avvertimenti dati da Papa Paolo III al Cardinal’ Alessandro Farnese suo Nipote (fols. 215-219b). The Index supplied in the volume omits this last item, one of the frankest and most interesting of all: How to Succeed in the dog-eat-dog world of the Roman Curia.
Indice: fol. 54b -- [Farnese] Avvertimenti dati al Card. Farnese per il Conclave nella morte di Papa Paolo III (= I. 61. pag. 121; see vol. 71, item 18, above).
74 [Continuation of Instruttioni] General title-page: Varie instruttioni Consegnate à i Nuntii, e Legati Apostolici inviati in varie parti dalla felice memoria di Papa Paolo Quinto eccetto due, che sono di Clemente VIII. 206 leaves.
Language: All items in Italian.
Indice: No separate general title; see vol. 71.
Contents:
1) Instruttione à Monsignor Detio Caraffa Arcivescovo di Damasco, destinato Nuntio in Fiandra alli Serenissimi Archiduchi Alberto & Infante D. Isabella d'Austria da Papa Paolo Vo (fols. 1-9b). Dated 2 luglio 1606. Indice: fol. 26b -- Caraffa, Monsignor Detio Arcivescovo di Damasco, cioè istruzione al medesimo destinato Nunzio in Fiandra, &c l'anno 1606 (= I. 64. pag. 1).
2) Instruttione à Monsignor Detio Carafa Arcivescovo di Damasco destinato Nuntio in Spagna à Filippo III da Papa Paolo V. (fols. 10-27b). Dated at end: 28 maggio 1608. Indice: fol. 26b -- [Caraffa] All'istesso destinato Nunzio in Spagna l'anno 1608 (= [I. 64.] pag. 10.
3) Instruttione à Monsignor Landinelli Vescovo d'Albenga, destinato collettore Apostolico in Portogallo da Papa Paolo Quinto (fols. 28-40b). Undated. Indice: fol. 95a -- Landinelli, Monsignore, cioè Istruzione di Paolo V al medesimo destinato Collettore in Portogallo (= I. 64. pag. 28).
4) Instruttione al Card. Carlo Madruzo destinato Legato in Germania da Papa Paolo V per la Dieta di Ratisbona intimata dall'Imperatore Mattias l'anno 1613 (fols. 41-58b). Dated at end: 18 Aprile 1613. Indice: fol. 112b -- Madruzzo, Card., cioè Istruzione di Paolo V al medesimo destinato Legato alla Dieta di Ratisbona l'anno 1613 (= I. 64. pag. 153).
5) Instruttione à Monsignor Sarego Vescovo d'Adria destinato Nuntio nell'Elvetia da PP. Paolo Vo (fols. 59-114b). Dated at end: 2 settembre 1614. Indice: fol. 171a -- Sarego, Monsignore, cioè Istruzione al medesimo destinato Nunzio agli Svizzeri da Paolo V l'anno 1614 (= I. 64. pag. 59).
6) Instruttione à Monsignor Filonardi Arcivescovo d'Amalfi destinato Nuntio e Collettore Apostolico per Napoli, e tutto il suo dominio a Papa Paolo V l'anno 1616 mentre governava quel Regno il Conte di Lemos (fols. 115-122b). No further date given. Indice: fol. 58b -- Filonardi, Monsig., cioè Istruzione di Paolo V al medesimo destinato Collettore, e Nunzio nel Regno di Napoli (= I. 64. pag. 115).
7) Instruttione a Monsignor Gesualdo Arcivescovo di Bari destinato Nuntio in Germania all'Imperatore Matthias da Papa Paolo V° (fols. 123-131b). Dated at end: 24 giugno 1617. Indice: fol. 73b -- Gesualdo, Monsignor, cioè Istruzione di Paolo V al medesimo destinato Nunzio in Germania all Imperatore Mattias l'anno 1617. (= I. 64. pag. 123).
8) Instruttione al Cardinale Caetano, destinato Legato in Pollonia da Clemente VIII (fols. 132-152). Dated at end: xi Aprile 1596. Indice: fol. 70b -- Gaetano, Card., cioè Istruzione al medesimo mandato Legato in Polonia da Clemente VIII l'anno 1596. (= I. 64. pag. 132). For the cor
