Archivio Mediceo del Principato, Firenze, Filza 4188
Banquet after
Beauty
, mentioned in a dispatch
sent home by the Tuscan agent Ottaviano Lotti
. It is dated 4
Feb. 1607 [i.e. 25 Jan. 1608]
, and occupies one folded
sheet.
[. . .] et questo ambasciatore di Spagna ha invitato tutte le
Dame che danzorno alla mascherata della Regina, a un gran banchetto
Translation
[. . .] and this Spanish ambassador invited all the ladies who had danced in
the queen
’s masque to a great banquet.
Bibliography
Orrell (1977-78), 163