1. Instruttione a V.S. Monsig. di Bagni Arciv. di Patras Nuntio ordinario di Nostro Sig. in Fiandra Published / Created: circa 1550-1848 Call Number: GEN MSS 110 Container / Volume: Box 98, folder 6 Image Count: 56 Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > DIPLOMATIC REPORTS > Instruttione a V.S. Monsig. di Bagni Arciv. di Patras Nuntio ordinario di Nostro Sig. in Fiandra. Copy of the instructions given to Giovan Francesco Guido del Bagno, when he was sent as Nuncio to Flanders, dated Rome, May 1, 1621. See Pastor XIII/1, p. 174. 46 pages, numbered ff. 213-235.
2. Instruttione a Monsig. Sacchetti Vescovo d'Gravina Nuntio appo la Maesta Cattolica. Copy of the Published / Created: circa 1550-1848 Call Number: GEN MSS 110 Container / Volume: Box 98, folder 5 Image Count: 60 Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > DIPLOMATIC REPORTS > Instruttione a Monsig. Sacchetti Vescovo d'Gravina Nuntio appo la Maesta Cattolica. Copy of the instructions to Giulio Sacchetti, who was sent as Nuncio to Spain, January, 1624. See Pastor XIII/1, p. 273. 117 pages, numbered ff. 163-211.
3. Instruttione à V.S. Monsig. Caraffa Vescovo d'Aversa destinato Nuntio ordinario di Nostro Signore Published / Created: circa 1550-1848 Call Number: GEN MSS 110 Container / Volume: Box 98, folder 4 Image Count: 72 Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > DIPLOMATIC REPORTS > Instruttione à V.S. Monsig. Caraffa Vescovo d'Aversa destinato Nuntio ordinario di Nostro Signore in Germania appresso la Maesta di Ferdinando Secondo Imperatore. Copy of the instructions to Carlo Carafa, when he was sent as Papal Nuncio to Germany, dated Rome, April 12, 1621. See Pastor XIII/1, p. 175-177. 70 pages, numbered ff. 146-181.
4. Instruttione à Mons. Corsini Arciv. di Tarsi... destinato da N.S. Nuntio ordinario nel Reame di Published / Created: circa 1550-1848 Call Number: GEN MSS 110 Container / Volume: Box 98, folder 3 Image Count: 48 Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > DIPLOMATIC REPORTS > Instruttione à Mons. Corsini Arciv. di Tarsi... destinato da N.S. Nuntio ordinario nel Reame di Francio dell anno della Creatione di Papa Gregorio XV. Copy of the instructions given in 1621 to Ottavio Corsini, Nuncio in France; treating among others the problem of the Veltlin. See Pastor XIII/1, p. 155. 47 pages, numbered ff. 122-145.
5. Instruttione à Monsig. Accorambono Vesc. di Fossombrone destinato Collet. nel Regno di Portogallo Published / Created: circa 1550-1848 Call Number: GEN MSS 110 Container / Volume: Box 98, folder 2 Image Count: 36 Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > DIPLOMATIC REPORTS > Instruttione à Monsig. Accorambono Vesc. di Fossombrone destinato Collet. nel Regno di Portogallo dalla santita di N.S. Papa Paolo V. Pope Paul V's instructions to Ottavio Accoramboni, sent to Portugal as Nuncio in June 1614. Dated Rome, June 1, 1614. See Pastor XII, p. 233. 31 pages, numbered ff. 104- 119.
6. Moro, Leonardo. Relatione dell Governo è cose di Spagna. Fatta dal...Leonatrdo Moro nel ritorno Published / Created: circa 1550-1848 Call Number: GEN MSS 110 Container / Volume: Box 98, folder 1 Image Count: 212 Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > DIPLOMATIC REPORTS > Moro, Leonardo. Relatione dell Governo è cose di Spagna. Fatta dal...Leonatrdo Moro nel ritorno della sua Amb.ria. in Venezia. A detailed intelligence report on Spain under Philip IV, written in or about 1628. Containes sections on incomes, costs, military power, government, the King, and diplomatic relations with European nations and princes. Includes chapters on imports from the East Indies and the Americas (ff. 32 seq.). 204 pages, numbered ff. 2-103.
7. Grandes de España. Detailed statistics of the government of Spain under the reign of Philip IV Published / Created: circa 1550-1848 Call Number: GEN MSS 110 Container / Volume: Box 95, folder 36 Image Count: 76 Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > MISCELLANY > Grandes de España. Detailed statistics of the government of Spain under the reign of Philip IV (1621-1665), including the royal households, government agencies, the nobility and clergy, the knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece, the army and navy, the Viceroys in Spain and Portugal, Italy, and the colonial possessions in the East and West Indies. In Spanish. 64 pages, numbered ff. 347-379.
8. (Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma). Copia della Lettera scritta dal serenissimo de Parma al Sig Published / Created: circa 1550-1848 Call Number: GEN MSS 110 Container / Volume: Box 95, folder 35 Image Count: 8 Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > MISCELLANY > (Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma). Copia della Lettera scritta dal serenissimo de Parma al Sig. Cavaliere Carandini suo Residente in Roma. Copy of a letter of instruction by the Duke of Parma to his representative in Rome, signed and dated Piacenza, Sept. 1635. 6 pages, numbered ff. 343-345.
9. Viaggio di Venetia à Cracouia per Terra. An interesting list of distances between Cracow and Venice Published / Created: circa 1550-1848 Call Number: GEN MSS 110 Container / Volume: Box 95, folder 34 Image Count: 8 Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > MISCELLANY > Viaggio di Venetia à Cracouia per Terra. An interesting list of distances between Cracow and Venice, possibly compiled by or for Ruggieri (see above item) or any other nuncio in Poland. The distances from stop to stop are given, along with alternate routes. Travel by waterways is not recommended as being too cold. 5 pages, narrow 4to, between f. 342 and 343.
10. Ruggieri, Giulio. Della relatione di Mons. Ruggieri stato Nuntio al Re di Polonia l'anno 1568 Published / Created: circa 1550-1848 Call Number: GEN MSS 110 Container / Volume: Box 95, folder 33 Image Count: 52 Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > MISCELLANY > Ruggieri, Giulio. Della relatione di Mons. Ruggieri stato Nuntio al Re di Polonia l'anno 1568. Ruggieri, Nuncio in Poland, sent this detailed report on Poland to Pope Pius V, giving an interesting account of the political, economic, and religious status of the country. See Pastor VIII, p. 502, n. 4 listing other ms. copies of this report. 48 pages, numbered ff. 317-341.
11. Informatione del Regno di Polonia. A report on Poland, unsigned and undated. Possibly written by Published / Created: circa 1550-1848 Call Number: GEN MSS 110 Container / Volume: Box 95, folder 32 Image Count: 16 Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > MISCELLANY > Informatione del Regno di Polonia. A report on Poland, unsigned and undated. Possibly written by the Nuncio Caligari or by his successor Bolognetti, between 1580 and 1590. 15 pages, numbered ff. 309- 316.
12. Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara. Copy of a pact between the Dukes of Mantua, Parma, and Ferrara Published / Created: circa 1550-1848 Call Number: GEN MSS 110 Container / Volume: Box 95, folder 31 Image Count: 4 Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > MISCELLANY > Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara. Copy of a pact between the Dukes of Mantua, Parma, and Ferrara, dated, June 27, 1593. 3 pages, numbered ff. 307-308.
13. (Florence. Criminal law). Copia d'una lettera intorno all'estrattione de i Sicarii di Fiorenza Published / Created: circa 1550-1848 Call Number: GEN MSS 110 Container / Volume: Box 95, folder 30 Image Count: 20 Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > MISCELLANY > (Florence. Criminal law). Copia d'una lettera intorno all'estrattione de i Sicarii di Fiorenza. Another copy of no. 28. 15 pages, numbered ff. 297- 304.
14. (Florence. Criminal law). Copia della risposta data ad una fra'intorno all'estrattione de pretensi Published / Created: circa 1550-1848 Call Number: GEN MSS 110 Container / Volume: Box 95, folder 29 Image Count: 42 Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > MISCELLANY > (Florence. Criminal law). Copia della risposta data ad una fra'intorno all'estrattione de pretensi Sicarii di Fiorenza. Copy of the answer to the previous item (no. 29); identical with no. 26, a cleaner and more legible copy. 42 pages, numbered ff. 276-296.
15. (Florence. Criminal Law). Copia d'una Lettera intorno all'estrattione de i Sicarii di Fiorenza Published / Created: circa 1550-1848 Call Number: GEN MSS 110 Container / Volume: Box 95, folder 28 Image Count: 26 Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > MISCELLANY > (Florence. Criminal Law). Copia d'una Lettera intorno all'estrattione de i Sicarii di Fiorenza. Copy of a letter on criminals in Florence. Undated and unsigned. Answer to this letter, see no. 26 above. 18 pages, numbered ff. 263-271.
16. Louis XIII, King of France. Forma della Gratia Concessa del Rè a'suoi Sudditi della Rocella. Sopra Published / Created: circa 1550-1848 Call Number: GEN MSS 110 Container / Volume: Box 95, folder 27 Image Count: 8 Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > MISCELLANY > Louis XIII, King of France. Forma della Gratia Concessa del Rè a'suoi Sudditi della Rocella. Sopra il Perdono da essi domandato à S.M. intorno alla loro Ribellione. Printed pamphlet, dated Oct. 28, 1628. 4 leaves, numbered ff. 259-262. Small 8vo. Louis XIII's pardon of the rebellion of the Huguenots in La Rochelle. Very rare. Not in the catalogues of the BN or BM.
17. (Florence. Criminal Law). Copia della risposta... estrattione de pretensi sicarii di Fiorenza. Copy Published / Created: circa 1550-1848 Call Number: GEN MSS 110 Container / Volume: Box 95, folder 26 Image Count: 44 Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > MISCELLANY > (Florence. Criminal Law). Copia della risposta... estrattione de pretensi sicarii di Fiorenza. Copy of a treatise on Criminal Law, dealing with the problem of ecclesiastical or worldly authorities; written in answer (?) to an edict by Ferdinand II de'Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Unsigned, undated. Damp stained on top, effecting the heading of the first leaf. 40 pages, numbered ff. 239-256.
18. Bolognino. Trattato della Famiglia Bologninos. A genealogy of this noble Italian family, with a Published / Created: circa 1550-1848 Call Number: GEN MSS 110 Container / Volume: Box 95, folder 25 Image Count: 12 Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > MISCELLANY > Bolognino. Trattato della Famiglia Bologninos. A genealogy of this noble Italian family, with a genealogical table, dated Bologna, 1597. 6 pages, numbered ff. 231-235.
19. Adorni. A genealogy of the noble Genoese family Adorno. With a genealogical table, dated Bologna Published / Created: circa 1550-1848 Call Number: GEN MSS 110 Container / Volume: Box 95, folder 24 Image Count: 15 Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > MISCELLANY > Adorni. A genealogy of the noble Genoese family Adorno. With a genealogical table, dated Bologna, 1597. 6 pages, numbered ff. 223-229.
20. (Rodolfo, Cardinal Ottavio). Fr. Nicholas Rodolfo Florentino Ottavii... Latin panegyric on the Published / Created: circa 1550-1848 Call Number: GEN MSS 110 Container / Volume: Box 95, folder 23 Image Count: 2 Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > MISCELLANY > (Rodolfo, Cardinal Ottavio). Fr. Nicholas Rodolfo Florentino Ottavii... Latin panegyric on the death of Cardinal Rodolfo in 1650. 2 pages (f. 222).