Archivio Mediceo del Principato,
Firenze,
Filza 4194
Performance of the masque, reported in a dispatch sent home
by the Tuscan agent
Amerigo Salvetti
, dated 3 Feb. 1622 [i.e. 24 Jan. 1623]
. It occupies three pages in a single folded sheet (extract on p. 1).
Il Sig
no r Principe fece domenica passata Il suo balletto, alla
presenza del Re, che ora si troua molto meglio.Vi fuí conuitato
Il Signno r Ambasciatore di francia, per essere questo il
suo anno, et il Signor Ambasciatore Veneto per
non hauere hora qua competitori uiene chiamato ogní anno.
Translation
The Prince
performed his masque last Sunday.The king
, who is now much better, was present. The ambassador of
France
was invited, this being his turn, and the Venetian ambassador is invited every year,
as at present nobody is competing
with him for precedence.
Bibliography
Orrell (1979a),
7