As a result of these disturbances, the Bishop of Casale had excommunicated Count Giacomo Nemours. To the petition is attached a copy of a decree issued by King Vittorio Amadeo on July 8, 1713, by which he declares the action of the bishop to be unjustified, and he takes action to correct it.
On the first leaf is the following notation in pencil: "Gio. Btta Regni (Begni?) carcerato settimane in secreta il Lottis Balagi," indicating that Regni was either the author or the copyist.
Since no author's name is given in this ms., it is difficult to establish whether this play is by Onofrio Gilberto di Solofra (printed in Naples, 1653) which as Belloni states in his Il Seicento (p. 290) has thus far been unprocurable; or whether it is by Andrea Perrucci, a poet from Palermo, and a translator of Spanish comedies, who published a Convitato di Pietra in 1678, reprinted 1684, and perhaps later. The first Italian imitator of Tirso's Burlador is supposed to be Giacinto Andrea Cicognini (1606-1660); his Convitato di Pietra like our ms. also contains some Uscene buffonesche, but the comic characters have different names. At any rate, this ms. is important in regard to the literary vicissitudes of the Don Juan legend in Italy.
Diarii delli Vicere di Napoli, e loro Governo. This volume contains the annals (Diari) of the Spanish Viceroys of Naples in the 17th century, with copious information about their governments. If not printed, historically very important material.
The Viceroys are: Pedro de Toledo; Cardinal Pacheco; Ferrante of Toledo, Duke of Alba; Cardinal de la Quena; Duke of Alcala; Cardinal Granvela; Marquis of Mandezar; Juan de Zuñiga; Pedro Giron, Duke of Ossuna; Juan de Zuñiga, Count of Miranda; Count Olivares; Hernando de Castro, Count of Lemos; Pedro Giron, Duke of Ossuna; Cardinal Zappata; Cardinal Gasparo Borgia; Cardinal Zappata; Duke of Alba.
