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Archivio Mediceo del Principato, Firenze,
Filza 4193

News of the masque, from a dispatch sent home by the Tuscan agent Amerigo Salvetti , on 10 Jan. 1617 [i.e. 31 December 1617] . The dispatch occupies three pages of a single a folded sheet (extract on p. 1).



[...] le feste di Natale non danno per hora altra nouita’ in corte, che allegrezze di danze, et preparationi del balletto del Prencipe …

Translation
The Christmas festivities provide no news at court but the mirth of dances and the preparations for the Prince ’s masque.

Bibliography
Orrell (1979a), 3