The Fortunate Isles 10


Archivio Mediceo del Principato, Firenze,
Filza 4195

Postponement of the masque reported in a dispatch sent home by the Tuscan agent Amerigo Salvetti , dated 17 Jan. 1624 [i.e. 7 Jan. 1625] . It occupies seven pages in two folded sheets (extract on p. 6).



Il balletto del Signor Principe, che si doueua fare hiersera giorno de lor Tre Re, eí stato diferito fino aí domenica prossima, non ritrouandosi Signor Maestaí ancora ben guarito dalla gotta.

Translation

The Prince ’s masque, which was to be performed last night, Twelfth Night, has been put off until next Sunday, because the king has not yet fully recovered from the gout.

Bibliography
Orrell (1979a), 10