Collection Title: Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) / Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Published / Created:: circa 1550-1848
Call Number:: GEN MSS 110
Container / Volume:: Box 45, folder 1
Image Count:: 131
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > FIVE PLAYS > Sordini d'Atri, Pietro paolo. Il Principe Innamorato di se stesso ovvero gli inganni fortunati. Ms. in Italian. 128 pages, numbered ff. 1-64. Undated. Sordini is not mentioned in the standard history of 17th century Italian literature, the Seicento, by Antonio Belloni. This tragicomedy was performed apparently under Francesco Boccalari in 1668.

Published / Created:: circa 1550-1848
Call Number:: GEN MSS 110
Container / Volume:: Box 26, folder 1
Image Count:: 76
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > PROSE COMEDIES > Il Rodrigo, ovvero la Costanza in Amore. Play. Name of author not given. 38 leaves, numbered 1-38.

Published / Created:: circa 1550-1848
Call Number:: GEN MSS 110
Container / Volume:: Box 21.8
Image Count:: 3
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > PARETUS AND RELATED AUTHORS > Dissertatio II. De impenetrabilitate. On impenetrability; inertia; second and third Newtonian law; central forces; cause of speed; universal gravity of bodies; laws of gravity; for a better understanding of Newtonian theory; phenomena of tides; Galileo's opinion refuted; Descarte's opinion refuted; Kepler's view refuted; Newton's theory approved; nature of comets. 350 pages, 8 folding diagrams.

Published / Created:: circa 1550-1848
Call Number:: GEN MSS 110
Container / Volume:: Box 26, folder 3
Image Count:: 11
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > PROSE COMEDIES > A scenario for a commedia dell'arte. No author or title given. 6 leaves, numbered ff. 91-96.

Published / Created:: circa 1550-1848
Call Number:: GEN MSS 110
Container / Volume:: Box 33, folder 10
Image Count:: 90
Description:: 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 i...
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > MISCELLANY > In Convitato di Pietra. A comedy play. Ms. 91 pages. An Italian version of the Don Juan legend, undated. Imitation of Tirso de Molina's famous Burlador de Sevilla, but with the insertion of comic scenes acted by characters from the commedia dell'arte like Pulcinella (speaking in Neapolitan dialect), Mezzettino (speaking in Venetian), Rosetta, Pimpinella; these scenes differentiate this play from the Spanish original.

Published / Created:: circa 1550-1848
Call Number:: GEN MSS 110
Container / Volume:: Box 81, folder 5
Image Count:: 17
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS > (Ahmad I, Sultan of the Turks). La Vita del Gran Turco. A description of the life of the Sultan, his residence, costume, the members of his household & government, etc. Undated, unsigned (ca. 1611?). 32 pages, numbered ff. 108-123.

Published / Created:: circa 1550-1848
Call Number:: GEN MSS 110
Container / Volume:: Box 86, folder 2
Image Count:: 3
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS > Christina, Queen of Sweeden. Oratione fatta alli Comitii d'Upsala nel mese di Febraio 1654 dalla Regina di Suezia nella Renunza, che fece del Regno di Suezia. The speech made by the Queen at Upsala, previous to her solemn abdication on July 6, 1654. 3 leaves, numbered ff. 1-3.

Published / Created:: circa 1550-1848
Call Number:: GEN MSS 110
Container / Volume:: Box 57, folder 1
Image Count:: 90
Description:: The subject treated is the Coat of Arms of the King of Naples, with explanations as to their origins and connections.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > BOLVITO, GIOAN BATTISTA. LA ARME DE I RE DE NAPOLI. > Bolvito, Gioan Battista, La Arme de i Re de Napoli, raccolte..., insieme con una brevissima dicharazione della loro origine et dependencia. Ms. in Italian. 169 pages. Large 4to. Contemporary limp vellum. With drawings of coats of arms. Italy, c. 17th century.

Published / Created:: circa 1550-1848
Call Number:: GEN MSS 110
Container / Volume:: Box 89, folder 68
Image Count:: 4
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > RELATIONI DI PIU CONCLAVI > Torna al canto, o Musa mia. Satirical poem in quatrains, apparently on the reign of Innocent X. 7-1/2 colunms on 4 pages, numbered ff. 608-609.

Published / Created:: circa 1550-1848
Call Number:: GEN MSS 110
Container / Volume:: Box 89, folder 61
Image Count:: 6
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian castle archive (GEN MSS 110) > RELATIONI DI PIU CONCLAVI > Tocca musa il Colascione. Satirical poem in quatrains on all the cardinals under Pope Inncoent X. Undated and unsigned. 10 columns on 5 pages, numbered ff. 598-600.

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