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- Creator:
- Dal Pino, Antonio di Francesco
- Call Number:
- Osborn b96
- Image Count:
- 323
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Contemporary scribal copy in several hands of this travel account. Tommaso del Bene left Florence with his suite on 21 July 1695 and returned on 7 April 1696. On both the outward and return journies he travelled by way of the Brenner, Germany and the Low Countries. He landed in England on 20 October 1695 and remained there until 6 January 1696. Dal Pino's account of the stay in England covers 100 pages. It includes notes of the envoy's diplomatic and social activity, a long description of a Lord Mayor's show (p. 143-49), descriptions of visits to Windsor and Hampton Court, with comments on the works of art, and reports of proceedings in Parliament. The narrative is followed by a list of the stages of the journeys and an index of places
- Description:
- Another MS of this work is in the Archivio di Stato, Florence.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Europe and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Cosimo III, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1642-1723., Del Bene, Tommaso., and Lord Mayor's Show
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Italian and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Memoria delle cose piu particolari notate nel viaggio di Firenze a Londra per propria sodisfazione dal P. Antonio Frnacesco dal Pino : in occorenza d'aver servito di cappellano all'Illmo. Sigre. Commendre. F. Tommaso del Bene inviato straordinario del Sermo. Gran Duca di Toscana Cosimo Terzo felicemente regnante nell'anno 1695, 1695