Lettere scritte ... al March[ese] Montauti inviato di Toscana alla corte cesarea

Name:

Bassetti, Apollonio; Montauti, Anton Francesco, Abbe Marquis

Timespan:

17th century

Date:

1691/1699

Description:

355 original letters from Apollonio Bassetti written from Florence and Pisa to Anton Francesco Montauti, special envoy from Tuscany to the imperial court in Vienna. The last letter in this volume written by Bassetti is dated 18 April 1699, just five days before his death on 23 April 1699. The second volume is an eighteenth-century manuscript copy of these 355 letters.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Sold by Renzo Rizzi (Milan), 1961.

Subject:

Ambassadors -- Italy -- Tuscany -- 17th century; Ambassadors

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); letters (correspondence); Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, European

Physical Description:

2 v. (572, 372 leaves [copy]) : paper; volume 1: 285 x 210 mm bound to 307 x 225 mm; volume 2: 287 x 207 mm bound to 298 x 220 mm

Geographic Subject:

Italy -- Tuscany

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. 1r).; Foliation: Volume 1: Paper, 572; [1-572]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; Volume 2: Paper, 372; [1-372]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Script: Written in various cursive hands; copies in a single cursive hand.; Binding: Contemporary parchment, both volumes.; Origin: Written in Florence and Pisa, 1691-1699.; Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 535