Italian castle archive
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Call Number: GEN MSS 110
Origine della Regia Dohana di Foggia. A historical treatise in Italian on Foggia in Apulia. Alphonso I of Aragon, King of Naples, made it a royal domain in 1443 and named it the place at which the tax on sheep would be paid and the wool sold. 52 pages, numbered ff. 93-119.
Part of Collection — Box 88: [39002098969885], Folder: 9
Call Number: GEN MSS 110
Dates:
circa 1550-1848, bulk 1600-1750
Tocca Musa il Colascione. A long poem in 25 octave stanzas on the death of Urban VIII (1644). A strongly satirical poem against the Pope. 9 columns on 4-1/2 pages, numbered ff. 434-436. See Pastor XIII/2, p. 80.
Part of Collection — Box 89: [39002098969893], Folder: 24
Call Number: GEN MSS 110
Dates:
circa 1550-1848, bulk 1600-1750
Tocca Musa il Chitarrino... A pasquinade satirizing the nepotism of Innocent X, alluding to Camillo Pamphili, son of Olimpia, etc. 5 columns on 3 pages, numbered ff. 557-558.
Part of Collection — Box 89: [39002098969893], Folder: 43
Call Number: GEN MSS 110
Dates:
circa 1550-1848, bulk 1600-1750
Tocca musa il Colascione. Satirical poem in quatrains on all the cardinals under Pope Inncoent X. Undated and unsigned. 10 columns on 5 pages, numbered ff. 598-600.
Part of Collection — Box 89: [39002098969893], Folder: 61
Call Number: GEN MSS 110
Dates:
circa 1550-1848, bulk 1600-1750
Torna al canto, o Musa mia. Satirical poem in quatrains, apparently on the reign of Innocent X. 7-1/2 colunms on 4 pages, numbered ff. 608-609.
Part of Collection — Box 89: [39002098969893], Folder: 68
Call Number: GEN MSS 110
Dates:
circa 1550-1848, bulk 1600-1750
Pilate, Pontius. Copia della Sentenza data... contro Giesu figlio di Dio. Copy of a speculative sentence brought by Pilate against Jesus, in Italian, made public under Pope Innocent XII, dated Jan. 15, 1692. 2 leaves, numbered ff. 303-304.
Part of Collection — Box 104: [39002098970057], Folder: 69
Call Number: GEN MSS 110
Dates:
circa 1550-1848, bulk 1600-1750
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Comedy in Prose. Comedy in prose. No title. Ms. on paper. 64 ff. N.pl., n.d.
Part of Collection — Box 20.2: [39002098700520]
Call Number: GEN MSS 110
Scope and Contents:
On the first leaf is the following notation in pencil: "Gio. Btta Regni (Begni?) carcerato settimane in secreta il Lottis Balagi," indicating that Regni was either the author or the copyist.
Dates:
circa 1550-1848, bulk 1600-1750
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Dissertatio II. De impenetrabilitate. On impenetrability; inertia; second and third Newtonian law; central forces; cause of speed; universal gravity of bodies; laws of gravity; for a better understanding of Newtonian theory; phenomena of tides; Galileo's opinion refuted; Descarte's opinion refuted; Kepler's view refuted; Newton's theory approved; nature of comets. 350 pages, 8 folding diagrams.
Part of Collection — Box 21.8: [39002098700629]
Call Number: GEN MSS 110
Dates:
circa 1550-1848, bulk 1600-1750
Il Rodrigo, ovvero la Costanza in Amore. Play. Name of author not given. 38 leaves, numbered 1-38.
Part of Collection — Box 26: [39002098700660], Folder: 1
Call Number: GEN MSS 110
Dates:
circa 1550-1848, bulk 1600-1750
A scenario for a commedia dell'arte. No author or title given. 6 leaves, numbered ff. 91-96.
Part of Collection — Box 26: [39002098700660], Folder: 3
Call Number: GEN MSS 110
Dates:
circa 1550-1848, bulk 1600-1750
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In Convitato di Pietra. A comedy play. Ms. 91 pages. An Italian version of the Don Juan legend, undated. Imitation of Tirso de Molina's famous Burlador de Sevilla, but with the insertion of comic scenes acted by characters from the commedia dell'arte like Pulcinella (speaking in Neapolitan dialect), Mezzettino (speaking in Venetian), Rosetta, Pimpinella; these scenes differentiate this play from the Spanish original.
Part of Collection — Box 33: [39002098700736], Folder: 10
Call Number: GEN MSS 110
Scope and Contents:
Since no author's name is given in this ms., it is difficult to establish whether this play is by Onofrio Gilberto di Solofra (printed in Naples, 1653) which as Belloni states in his Il Seicento (p. 290) has thus far been unprocurable; or whether it is by Andrea Perrucci, a poet from Palermo, and a translator of Spanish comedies, who published a Convitato di Pietra in 1678, reprinted 1684, and perhaps later. The first Italian...
Dates:
circa 1550-1848, bulk 1600-1750
Supplica delli Conti Agostino Landi, Giovanni Angosciola...portata al signor Don Ferrante Gonzaga, Governator della Stato di Milano. Ms. in Latin. 22 pages, numbered ff. 139-150. Dated at end: Parma, December 1580. Landi, Angosciola (Anguissola?), Pallavinci, and Gonfalieri address Don Ferrante Gonzaga for not complying with the summons issued against them to appear in a Roman court, in order to contest the charge of having conspired to murder Pier Luigi Farnese. The reasons which impelled them to conspire are given.
Part of Collection — Box 42: [39002098700827], Folder: 12
Call Number: GEN MSS 110
Dates:
circa 1550-1848, bulk 1600-1750
Copia eiusdem Inquisitionis formatae contra Comitem Claudium Landum. Ms. in Latin. 22 pages, numbered ff. 151-163. Signed by Ferrando Gonzaga. Dated Mediolan, September 30, 1549.
Part of Collection — Box 42: [39002098700827], Folder: 13
Call Number: GEN MSS 110
Dates:
circa 1550-1848, bulk 1600-1750
Rome, Teatro Alibert. Ms. in Italian. 9 pages. Copy of a contract by which Count Giacomo Alibert rents the theater to Marcello de Rosis. The theater is about to be rebuilt. Dated May 12, 1695.
Part of Collection — Box 44: [39002098700843], Folder: 2
Call Number: GEN MSS 110
Dates:
circa 1550-1848, bulk 1600-1750
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Sordini d'Atri, Pietro paolo. Il Principe Innamorato di se stesso ovvero gli inganni fortunati. Ms. in Italian. 128 pages, numbered ff. 1-64. Undated. Sordini is not mentioned in the standard history of 17th century Italian literature, the Seicento, by Antonio Belloni. This tragicomedy was performed apparently under Francesco Boccalari in 1668.
Part of Collection — Box 45: [39002098700850], Folder: 1
Call Number: GEN MSS 110
Dates:
circa 1550-1848, bulk 1600-1750
Della Rivalita Generosa. Ms. in Italian. 154 pages, numbered ff. 67-143. A tragedy, interspersed with lighter scenes. No author's name is given. 17th century.
Part of Collection — Box 45: [39002098700850], Folder: 2
Call Number: GEN MSS 110
Dates:
circa 1550-1848, bulk 1600-1750
Il Duca di Baviera, opera Spagnola... Ms. in Italian. 54 pages, numbered ff. 144-170. No author's name is given. 17th century. A pseudo- historical tragedy.
Part of Collection — Box 45: [39002098700850], Folder: 3
Call Number: GEN MSS 110
Dates:
circa 1550-1848, bulk 1600-1750
Burlandosi se fa da Vero. Ms. in Italian. 48 pages, numbered ff. 171-194. No author's name is given. 17th century.
Part of Collection — Box 45: [39002098700850], Folder: 4
Call Number: GEN MSS 110
Dates:
circa 1550-1848, bulk 1600-1750
Brignole-Sale, Antonio Giulio. La pazza finta pazza. Ms. in Italian. 154 pages, numbered ff. 195-271. A comedy by the author of a collection of heterogeneous and bizarre short stories (Le instabilita dell'ingegno, Bologna, 1635). Brignole- Sale was born in Genove in 1605 and died in 1665. He was Ambassador to Spain, a poet, and entered the Jesuit Order during the last years of his life. This comedy is probably unprinted. 17th century.
Part of Collection — Box 45: [39002098700850], Folder: 5
Call Number: GEN MSS 110
Dates:
circa 1550-1848, bulk 1600-1750
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Bolvito, Gioan Battista, La Arme de i Re de Napoli, raccolte..., insieme con una brevissima dicharazione della loro origine et dependencia. Ms. in Italian. 169 pages. Large 4to. Contemporary limp vellum. With drawings of coats of arms. Italy, c. 17th century.
Bolvito, Gioan Battista, La Arme de i Re de Napoli, raccolte..., insieme con una brevissima dicharazione della loro origine et dependencia. Ms. in Italian. 169 pages. Large 4to. Contemporary limp vellum. With drawings of coats of arms. Italy, c. 17th century.
Part of Collection — Box 57: [39002098942932], Folder: 1
Call Number: GEN MSS 110
Scope and Contents:
The subject treated is the Coat of Arms of the King of Naples, with explanations as to their origins and connections.
Dates:
circa 1550-1848, bulk 1600-1750