Memorie del Duca di Guisa nelle quali si contengono tutti gli accidenti più notabili arrivati in Napoli pendente le ultime sollevationi, e tutti gli intrighi più segreti di questo principe con la nobilità, e de gli Spagnuoli col Popolo

Contributor:

Guzzotti, Pietro (translator)

Name:

Guise, Henry, duc de, 1614-1664

Timespan:

Spanish rule, 1442-1707; 1503-1734

Date:

1647

Description:

Account of events during the uprising in Naples against Spanish rule led by Masaniello (Tommaso Aniello) in the summer of 1647.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1952.

Subject:

Masaniello, 1620-1647; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Histories; Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

260 leaves : paper; 258 x 200 (212 x 137) mm bound to 267 x 208 mm

Geographic Subject:

Naples (Kingdom) -- History -- Spanish rule, 1442-1707; Naples (Kingdom); Naples (Italy) -- History -- 1503-1734

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. i recto).; Title on spine label: Memor[ie] de Guisa.; Incipit (f. 1r): Un'infelice affare, che mio malgrado non si è che troppo diffuso per tutta Europa ...; The title page has the date notation "1647 e 1648," possibly in a different hand; but it is unclear what these dates indicate: when the events described in the text took place, when the original French text was written, when the Italian translation was made, or when this manuscript was written.; Foliation: Paper, 260; [ii], 1-257, [i]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.; Script: Written in what appears to be in a single cursive hand. Occasional marginalia also appear to be in the same hand.; Binding: Contemporary calf with gilded design on spine. Cover worn at edges and spine. Oxidation of ink, very bad on some folios.; Origin: Written in Italy after 1647.; Italian, translated from French by Pietro Guzzotti.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 339