Correspondence, 1512-1523

Contributor:

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1459-1519 (addressee)

Name:

Pio, Alberto, 1475-1531; Pio, Lionello; Giberti, Giovanni Matteo, 1495-1543; Campeggi, Lorenzo, 1474-1539; Burgo, Andrea de; Fregoso, Federico, 1480-1541; Grilinzone, Leone; Spinello, Giovanni Battista; Bannissi, Jacopo

Date:

1512

Description:

A collection of letters dealing with foreign affairs of countries such as Lombardy, Spain, England, Flanders, and Naples, showing strong anti-French and anti-Venetian feeling. Half of the letters and memoranda are from Alberto Pio to Maximilian I or his officials; the other half are letters to Alberto Pio from, in order, Lionello Pio (his brother, 13 letters), Giovanni Matteo Giberti (bishop of Verona, 8 letters), Lorenzo Compeggi (1 letter), Andrea de Burgo (13 letters), Federico Fregoso (archbishop of Salerno, 1 letter), Leone Grilinzone (8 letters), Giovanni Battista Spinello (5 letters), and Jacopo Bannissi (20 letters). A few of the letters are written in code.

Language:

Italian

Relation:

Finding aid: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/pacscl/UPENN_RBML_PUSpMsColl637

Subject:

Ambassadors -- Holy Roman Empire; Ambassadors

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

125 items (144 leaves)

Geographic Subject:

Holy Roman Empire -- Foreign relations

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Conte di Carpi; ambassador of Emperor Maximilian I to the papal court.; A contemporary or slightly later folder gives the title Lettere latine di Alberto Pio Conte di Carpi, Ambasciatore della Maestà Cesarea in Roma, which applies only to the first half of the collection.; A majority of the leaves are bifolia. Many letters have seals or remnants of seals, and some have holes where seals were cut out.; In Latin (letters to Maximilian I and his officials) and Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 637