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Marcaldi, Travagli... della Regina di Scozia Maria, [Venice, late sixteenth century], limp vellum

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June 15, 03:56 PM GMT

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2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Marcaldi, Francesco


Travagli, Persecuzione e Prigionia della Regina di Scozia Maria figlia di Giacomo V Re del med[esim]o Regno. Con la morte del Re Enrico suo Marito. Destruzione del Rito Cattolico. La Coronaz[ion]e del Prencipe suo figlio, e altri avvenimenti attinenti a dette cose, scritti di Francesco Marcaldi in Venezia. Venice, 1580


small 4to (168 x 132mm.), manuscript on paper, 35 leaves, title-page (written in a different hand) with armorial stamp at foot, dedication to Alessandro Monte dated Venice, 8 February 1580, verses in French written on flyleaves, contemporary limp vellum, stubs of two pairs of silk ties, occasional very light staining


One of several manuscripts of this short anti-Protestant text written by the professional scribe Francesco Marcaldi; each was dedicated to a different person and written out between 1579 and 1587 in various north Italian towns. Marcaldi was able to access the relazioni sent back by the Venetian ambassadors to England and France and integrate them with other available sources. He also wrote other similar manuscript reports, for example on the Ottoman Empire and on the Republic of Genoa.


Sergio Rossi, "Tre narrazioni storiche su Maria Stuart", Aevum 32 (1958), pp.71-78, lists 24 manuscripts in institutional collections (therefore not including the present one) and a few known from other sources.


PROVENANCE:

Alessandro [del?] Monte, dedicatee; Sale, Sotheby's, 25 July 1929, lot 515, £4-15s, to Dobell