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Francesco Maria Piccolomini, Bishop of Montalcino asks Johanna von Habsburg-de'Medici to intercede on his behalf with Francesco I to receive a certificate concerning the Abbey of Sant'Antimo...
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Francesco Maria Piccolomini thanks Cosimo I for his invitation to the wedding of Francesco I with Johanna von Habsburg. Piccolomini is not sure he will be able to partecipate in the celebrations...
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Vinta will continue in his attempts to persuade Andrea Alciati to take a post at the Studio Pubblico in Pisa....
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Giuseph d'Aglian del Mondovì explains his alchemical operations involving saltpetre and mercury to Cosimo I. Mondovì is ill, suffering from asthma and a cough....
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Carpets made for Cosimo I are being shipped to Livorno from Alexandria, Egypt....
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Alì Bei of Cairo writes to Grand Duke Ferdinando II de' Medici about two of his slaves who seem to have disappeared in Tuscany....
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Vinta reports on Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's visit to Piacenza. Mendoza slept in the bedroom of Pierluigi Farnese, to see if the late Duke's spirit would attack him during the night....
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A detailed description of the functioning of a military field hospital [presumably near Alessandria, judging from the archival context of the document.]...
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A letter patent by the Duke of Feria with the name of the recipient left blank, authorising the raising a company of one hundred "Caballos corazas" [heavy horsemen armed with sword and pistols...
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Algerian capitan Caragiali sends gifts of exotic animals to Cosimo I....
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