Archivio Mediceo del Principato,
Firenze,
Filza 4194
Plans for a masque reported in a dispatch sent home by the
Tuscan agent
Amerigo Salvetti
, dated 15 Jan. 1620 [i.e. 5 Jan. 1621]
. It occupies three pages in a single folded sheet (extract on p. 1).
Domani per essere il giorno dei tre Re, et lí ultimo delle loro feste di natale, et
che Il Principe faí il suo solito Balletto, gli hanno preparato in Corte una nobilissima
Cena con colatione, non lasciando niente indietro per fargli honore, et in uní medesimo tempo mostrare quanto sia grandezza dí Inghilterra.
Translation
As tomorrow is Twelfth Night, the last day of their Christmas festivities, and
the Prince
will perform his usual masque, they have prepared a most noble dinner for him at
court. Nothing was omitted to honour him and
at the same time to show off the greatness of
England
.
Bibliography
Orrell (1979a),
6