Archivio Mediceo del Principato, Firenze,
Filza 4195
Duplicate in BL Add. MS 27962A, fol. 4v-5
Plans for Lovers Made Men reported in a dispatch sent home by the Tuscan ambassador
Amerigo Salvetti
, on 3 March 1616 [i.e. 21 Feb. 1617]
. It is collected in a parchment bound bundle of letters written by Salvetti, 1616-26.
It occupies four pages in a single folded sheet.
L' Ambasciatore estraordinario di Francia e' stato banchettato da Sua Maesta, et da molti altri Sig
nori principali; et domani da sera, il Sig
nor Barone d' Hayes, che fu' ultimamente Ambasciatore estarordinario In Francia gli dara' da cena, con intrattenimento di commedia, Balleto
di undici signori, et dasa di dame.
Translation
The French Ambassador extraordinary was feasted by his Majesty and many other principal
noblemen. Tomorrow evening
Lord Hay
, who was lately ambassador extraordinary in
France
, will give him another banquet, where the entertainment will consist of a play, a
masque of eleven gentlemen, and a dance of ladies.
Bibliography
Orrell (1979a), 2-3