Archivio di Stato, Torino,
Corte, Materie Politiche relative all’estero, Lettere Ministri, Gran Bretagna,
Mazzo 4
Report of entertainments given to the
Marquis de Cadenet
(French ambassador extraordinary)
during the Christmas season
1620-21, in a dispatch sent home by the Savoy agent Giovanni
Battista Gabaleone, on 19 [i.e. 9] Jan.
1621. The dispatch is unbound, and belongs to a series of
letters written in 1621 by Gabaleone. It occupies nine pages in three folded
sheets (extract on pp. 4-5).
Gli honori, fauori, et regalli che riceve da Sua
Maesta Serenissmo Prencipe Marchese di
Buchingam et da tutta la Corte non possono esser
maggiori, dandoli banchetti, comedia, caccie, feste, balli, balletti, correrie alla
baga
romper in lissa, e tutti i piacieri imaginabili senza inuito di nissun altro
Ambasciatore.
translation
The honours, favours and gifts that[Cadenet]receives from His Majesty,
the prince
, the Marquis of
Buckingham
and from all the court could not be
greater, for they give him banquets, plays, hunts, festivals, dances, masques, running
at the ring, careering in lists, and all the pleasures imaginable, to which no other
ambassador has been invited.
Bibliography
Orrell (1979b),
90