Archivio di Stato, Torino,
Corte, Materie Politiche relative all’ estero, Lettere Ministri, Gran Bretagna, Mazzo
2
Report of the masque in a dispatch sent home by the secretary to the Savoy agent,
Giovanni Francesco Biondi
, on 24 [i.e. 14] January 1618. It is unbound, but belongs to a series of letters
written by Biondi from 1618-1620. It occupies four pages in a single folded sheet
(extract on p. 2).
Il Serenissimo Prencipe di Gales fece il suo balletto il giorno dei Re con gran concorso di Dame
brillantemente indiamantate, ma la Regina non ui si trouo’
Translation
His Highness the Prince of
Wales
performed his masque on Twelfth Night, with a great gathering of ladies covered in
glittering diamonds, but the queen
was not there.
Bibliography
Orrell (1979b),
84