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