Date
Location
Great Britain
Media format
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Language
Reference IDs
ESTC number: R17626
Wing number: C6345
Folger call number: C6345
Folger holdings ID: 129151
Notes
Bibliographic format
octavo
General notes
Includes "A relation of the state of the court of Rome", which is a translation of "Relazione della corte romana fatta l'anno 1661", previously attributed to Angelo Corraro, but now judged to be by Charles Ferrare du Tot. The translation is by John Bulteel. (Cf. Diz. biog. degli Italiani, v. 29, p. 483.) Also includes "A new relation of Rome", a translation, by Giovanni Torriano, of "Relatione di Roma del Almaden". (Cf. BM.) With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Pope Alexander VII, signed: I. Chantry "A relation of the state of the court of Rome" and "A new relation of Rome" each have separate dated title page, pagination, and register A variant has "Mitre" in line 3 of imprint in place of "Miter" "A new relation of Rome" is identified as Wing N739 on UMI microfilm "Early English books, 1641-1700" reel 430:9 and as T1927 on reel 704:16
Item information about Folger C6345
152047. "A new relation of Rome" bound before "A relation of the state of the court of Rome"
Also known as
Extended title: Rome exactly describ'd, as to the present state of it, under Pope Alexandre the Seventh. : In two curious discourses. Written originally in Italian, and translated into English
Alternate titles: New relation of Rome, Relation of the state of the court of Rome in the year 1661 at the Council of Pregadi
Related names
subject: Alexander VII, Pope, 1599-1667
printmaker: Chantry, John, -1662?
attributed name: Correr, Angelo, 1605-1678
associated with: Bulteel, John, active 1683
associated with: Torriano, Giovanni