Account of festivities held in Florence, Italy, on the occasion of the marriage of Francesco I, Duke of Toscany with Bianca Capello, in 1549.
Description:
Marsili after drawings by the author: plate A.
Publisher:
Nella stamperia de' Giunti,
Subject (Geographic):
Florence (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Baldi, Accursio., Bianca,--Grand-Duchess, consort of Francesco I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany,--1548-1587--Marriage., Francesco--I,--Grand-Duke of Tuscany,--1541-1587--Marriage., Giunta, Filippo, 1533-1600., Giunti, Iacopo, d. 1591., Gualterotti, Raffaello, 1543-1638. Epitalamio nelle nozze della illustrissima signora Perregrina Cappello., Gualterotti, Raffaello, 1543-1638. Vaghezze sopra Pratolino., Haeredes Bernardi Iuntae, printer., and Marsili, Bastiano.
Subject (Topic):
Festivals--Italy--Florence--Early works to 1800., Marriages of royalty and nobility--Italy--Florence--Early works to 1800., and Pageants--Italy--Florence--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript on paper containing letters by or related to Lapo da Castiglionchio (d. 1381), and his family: 1) Lapo da Castiglionchio, Letter, written in 1377, to his son Bernardo, canon of the cathedral of Florence, then 14 years old, containing an elaborate treatise in three parts dealing with political and historical questions. 2) Bernardo da Castiglionchio (1363-1383), Letter to his father Lapo, in which he thanks him for the education and protection his father has provided and in particular for the extensive letter he has written in reply to his questions. 3) Bernardo da Castiglionchio, Second letter to his father Lapo, of about the same time, in which he resumes the theme of the nobility of the Castiglionchio family and provides a panegyric of his father with details about his career. 4) Francesco da Castiglionchio (second half of the fourteenth century), Letter to his father Alberto, brother of Lapo, written 8 June 1381 or slightly later. Describes the coronation of Charles III, King of Naples and Sicily (1381-1386) by Pope Urban VI in the church of St. Peter in Rome on 2 June 1381, an event in the preparation of which Lapo had an important role. 5) Francesco da Castiglionchio, Second letter to his father Alberto staying at Verona, dated 17 July 1381 and relating the death of Alberto's brother Lapo, which happened in Rome on 27 June of the same year after a short illness, a couple of weeks after the coronation of Charles III, which had been so important for the improvement of the Castiglionchio family. 6) Niccolò Acciaiuoli (1310-1365), Extracts from a letter, dated 26 Dec. 1364, to the Florentine merchant Angelo Soderini (d. 1377) established in Avignon.
Description:
On the author, a Florentine poet
Subject (Geographic):
Florence (Italy)--History
Subject (Name):
Castiglionchio, Lapo da,--d. 1381
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Nobility--Italy
Manuscript on paper of a number of ascetical treatises and prayers, including: 1) Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Octo versus. 2) Andrea da Pistoia, Epistola a un amico. 3) Aegidius O.S.B. (frate Gillio), Liber virtutum.
Description:
., Epistola a un amico. (Perhaps the author is to
Subject (Name):
Andrea da Pistoia
Subject (Topic):
Italian letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Virtue--Early works to 1800