BIB_ID
398472
Accession number
MA 2691.71
Creator
Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574.
Display Date
1554 August 15.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Harold T. White, 1969.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 29.1 x 21.5 cm
Notes
Recipient inferred from a loose original paper seal.
Addressed to Giulio da Montevecchio in Val d'Elsa.
Watermark: Lamb inscribed in a circle (Agnus Dei, Paschal lamb), (Briquet, 50).
Part of the White Collection of Italian Renaissance documents; see collection-level record for more information.
Addressed to Giulio da Montevecchio in Val d'Elsa.
Watermark: Lamb inscribed in a circle (Agnus Dei, Paschal lamb), (Briquet, 50).
Part of the White Collection of Italian Renaissance documents; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Harold T. White, 1969.
Summary
Advising Giulio da Montevecchio that he would be better to call a halt instead of retreating to take the town Menzano; also informing him that the Marquis di Marignano is resolved to take Casole and then Menzano and giving him suggestions on how to make the two towns capitulate, including killing all the protestants; in the postscript, adding that the two companies who were in Montecarlo left to reach Monteriggioni.
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