Archivio Mediceo del Principato, Firenze, Filza 4188
Preparations for
Beauty
recorded in a dispatch
sent home by the Tuscan agent, Ottaviano Lotti. It is dated 27
[i.e.17] Dec. 1607, and occupies six pages on two folded sheets
(this extract on fol. 6).
17. dec. 1607
... haveva comandato alle Dame di preparare un bellissimo balletto, pensando così
di compiacere a Sua Maesta’
... costerà questa festa alla Maestà ventimila scudi.
Translation
[
The
Queen
]had ordered her ladies to prepare a very beautiful masque, thinking this way to please
his Majesty.
... This festival will cost her Majesty twenty thousand scudi.
Bibliography
Orrell (1977-78), 163