BIB_ID
398664
Accession number
MA 2691.121
Creator
Brunetti, Pietro, active 17th century.
Display Date
1651 October 31.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Harold T. White, 1969.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 27.5 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Location is "Castello di Ferrara," the castle in Ferrara; in the back of the letter, a note appears inviting the secretaty of Giovanni Luigi Gonzaga to make his lord forget the matter and restore the general order; the docket of the document consists of a summary of the content of the letter.
Docketed in ink on verso.
Addressed to Cardinal Alderano Cybo-Malaspina.
Embossed seal, a cardinal's seal.
Part of the White Collection of Italian Renaissance documents; see collection-level record for more information.
Docketed in ink on verso.
Addressed to Cardinal Alderano Cybo-Malaspina.
Embossed seal, a cardinal's seal.
Part of the White Collection of Italian Renaissance documents; see collection-level record for more information.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: coat of arms surrounded by ecclesiastical emblems.
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Harold T. White, 1969.
Summary
Writing about a loss of pigs that happened to Giovanni Luigi Gonzaga on the banks of the rivers Reno and Po and his unsuccessful recourse to Cardinal Benedetto Odescalchi, from whom he received a sum of money to buy the animals; asking Cardinal Alderano Cybo-Malaspina to order not to quarrel any longer on the matter; in the postscript, addressing the executors and ministers of the court not to lose their honor.
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