Morte dell'ill[ustrissi]mo sig. Troilo Savello decapitato in Roma nel Castello Sant' Angelo alli 18 d'aprile 1592

Alternate Title:

Morte del Baron Troilo Savello, giustiziato in Roma, 1592

Name:

Biondi, Giuseppe, 1537-1598

Date:

1600

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Conte Paolo Vimercati-Sorzi (bookplate, flyleaf i verso).; Appears in Hoepli catalogs 59 (1890), no. 491, and 83 (1893), no. 17.; Gift of Richard W. Foster, 1967.

Subject:

Christian martyrs -- Italy -- Rome (City) -- Biography; Christian life -- Catholic authors; Savelli, Troilo, -1592; Christian martyrs

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Biographies (literary works); Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, Renaissance; Biographies; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

50 leaves : paper; 196 x 150 (172 x 120) mm bound to 203 x 157 mm

Geographic Subject:

Italy

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-41v: Morte dell ... Troilo Savello [i.e. Savelli]. -- 2. f.41v-47r: Breve examina de peccati da farsi nel tempo della morte (f. 41v) ... dal [primo] intitolata Studio de vera sapientia ... composto per Frat. Agostino di Vivo da Napoli ... in Brescia ... 160[0?] (f. 47r).; Title from caption title (f. 1r); added title page in 19th-century hand: Morte del Baron Troilo Savello, giustiziato in Roma, 1592.; Foliation: Paper, 50; [1-50]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.; Binding: Quarter calf with marbled paper and [earlier?] label: Biondo, Suplicio del B.T. Savello.; Origin: Written in Rome, ca. 1600.; The trial (for murder) is mentioned by L. Pastor in his Geschichte der Päpste (11th ed., p. 619-620) where he refers to an Italian pamphlet on the execution. Biondo's text came out in several English and French editions, but neither the British Museum nor the Bibliothèque nationale (Paris) lists an Italian printed edition (Zacour-Hirsch).; Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 454