Archivio Mediceo del Principato,
Firenze,
Filza 4194
Postponement of the masque, reported in a dispatch sent
home by the Tuscan agent
Amerigo Salvetti
, dated 27 Jan. 1622 [i.e. 17 Jan. 1623]
. It occupies three pages in a single folded sheet (extract on p. 3).
Il Princi pe dalí altra banda non si vidde mai sií contento et
gioviale, facendo quasi ogni giorno danze In Palazzo, et altri spazzi, et havrebbe
fin
domenica passata fatto il suo balletto annual e se il Re si fusse trouato
In stato da uederlo: percioí lí hanno rimesso aí questa altra Domenica.
Translation
On the other hand,
the Prince
has never seemed so happy and jovial, giving dances almost every day in the palace
or in other places. He would have performed his annual masque last Sunday if the king
had been well enough to see it: because of this it has been put off until next
Sunday.
Bibliography
Orrell (1979a),
7