Archivio Mediceo del Principato,
Firenze,
Filza 4194
Report of the masque in a dispatch sent home by the Tuscan
ambassador
Amerigo Salvetti
, dated 21 [i.e. 11] Jan. 1622. It
occupies three pages in a single folded sheet (extract on p. 3).
Il Principe fece domenica passata Il suo bellí Balletto, et di
questi Ambasciatori vi furno Spagna et Venetia, I quali non sí erano mai
prima visti rispetto alle diferenze de titoli di parit‡ che Venetia pretende.
Translation
The prince
performed his beautiful masque last Sunday. Among the ambassadors were those of
Spain
and Venice, who had never seen each other before, because
of the difference of precedence which Venice expects.
Bibliography
Orrell (1979a),
7