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Relatione di Savoia del Clarissimo Gio. Cornero al tempo del Duca Emanuel Filiberto

Name:
Corner, Giovanni, 1647-1722
Timespan:
16th century
Date:
1566
Description:
Account of Savoy under Duke Emmanuel Philibert by Giovanni Corner, Venetian ambassador to Savoy from 1563 to 1566.
Language:
Italian
Provenance:
Sold by Renzo Rizzi (Italy), 1960.
Subject:
Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, 1528-1580; Ambassadors -- Italy -- Venice -- 16th century; Ambassadors
Resource Type:
Text
Form/Genre:
Codices; Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, Renaissance
Physical Description:
92 leaves : paper; 264 x 195 (205 x 125) mm bound to 265 x 200 mm
Geographic Subject:
Savoy (France and Italy); Venice (Italy) -- Foreign relations -- Savoy (France and Italy); Venice (Italy) -- History; Italy -- Venice
Rights:
https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. [i]r) and caption title (f. 1r).; Form of author's name taken from Zacour-Hirsch; author's name possibly written "Correro" originally in the manuscript but then corrected to "Cornero." This work has also been attributed to Andrea Boldù (Antonibon, Francesca. Le relazioni a stampa di ambasciatori veneti. Padova: Tipografia del seminario, 1939, p. 110).; Author's name possibly written "Correro" originally in the manuscript but then corrected to "Cornero."; Incipit (f. 1r): Serenissimo Prencipe et sapientissimo Senato poi che quello che hò da trattan' ...; Foliation: Paper, 92; [ii], 1-89, [i]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 18 long lines; ruled in drypoint.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.; Binding: Contemporary vellum.; Origin: Written in Venice[?] in the second half of the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).; Piece torn out of the top of the title page (f.[i]), causing loss of most of an inscription that preceded the title. Oxidation of ink causing damage and brittleness to the paper on many leaves, and rendering much of the text hard to read.; Italian.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 352