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A Renaissance wedding : the celebrations at Pesaro for the marriage of Costanzo Sforza & Camilla Marzano d'Aragona, 26-30 May 1475 / introduced, translated and edited from the Italian by Jane Bridgeman ; Latin poems edited and translated by Alan Griffiths.

Title
A Renaissance wedding : the celebrations at Pesaro for the marriage of Costanzo Sforza & Camilla Marzano d'Aragona, 26-30 May 1475 / introduced, translated and edited from the Italian by Jane Bridgeman ; Latin poems edited and translated by Alan Griffiths.
Publication
  • London ; Turnhout : Harvey Miller Publishers, [2013]
  • ©2013

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Additional Authors
  • Bridgeman, Jane
  • Griffiths, Alan, 1946-
  • Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Manuscript. Urb. Lat. 899
Description
198 pages : color illustrations, color facsimiles; 27 cm
Summary
This publication is the first English translation from the Italian of the fascinating contemporary account of the spectacular four-day celebrations that took place in Pesaro in May 1475 to mark the marriage of Costanzo Sforza Lord of Pesaro and Camilla d'Aragona of Naples. The event was commemorated both in manuscript and early print in an anonymous narration that describes in great detail the arrival of the bride and her welcome procession into Pesaro; the actual marriage ceremony and the celebratory banquet that followed; the pageants, presentation of gifts and fireworks that filled the third day; and the final day's excitement of jousts and yet more theatrical entertainment. This present edition of the text includes all the images that illustrate the original manuscript. Thirty-two full-page miniatures depict the floats that welcomed the bride at the city gates of Pesaro.
Series Statement
[Studies in medieval and early Renaissance art history] ; [71]
Uniform Title
  • Ordine delle nozze di Costanzio Sforza. English.
  • Studies in medieval and early Renaissance art history 71.
Alternative Title
Celebrations at Pesaro for the marriage of Costanzo Sforza and Camilla Marzano d'Aragona, 26-30 May 1475
Subject
  • Sforza, Costanzo, 1447-1483 > Marriage
  • Sforza, Camilla d'Aragona, -1499 > Marriage
  • Sforza, Costanzo, approximately 1446-1483/89
  • Sforza, Covella
  • Sforza, Costanzo
  • Biblioteca apostolica vaticana
  • Geschichte 1475
  • Festivals > Italy > Pesaro > Early works to 1800
  • Weddings > Italy > Pesaro > Early works to 1800
  • Marriages of royalty and nobility > Italy > Pesaro
  • Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance > Italy > Pesaro
  • Illumination of books and manuscripts, Italian > Italy > Pesaro
  • Hochzeit
  • Festumzug
  • Buchmalerei
  • Beschreibung
  • Illustration
  • Renaissance
  • Pesaro (Italy) > Social life and customs
  • Pesaro
Genre/Form
Early works
Note
  • Series statement from the Brepols website, viewed June 30, 2016.
  • "The translation has been made from the early printed text (the incunable in the British Library, I.A. 31753 Sforza, Costantio Signore di Pesaro, 1475) and also directly from the unique illustrated presentation manuscript in the Vatican Library (MS Urb. Lat. 899)."--Jacket flap.
  • The early printed text was published in 1475 by Hermann Liechtenstein in Vicenza.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-190) and index.
Contents
Incunables and Manuscripts -- Wedding Books -- Translation -- Costanzo Sforza -- Camilla d'Aragona -- Marriage at Pesaro and its Celebrations -- Notes to the Introduction -- Joyous Nuptials -- Wedding Programme -- Sunday, 28th day of May -- First Part of the Banquet -- Second Part of the Banquet -- Monday, 29th day of the said month -- Extraordinary Presentation -- Tuesday, 30th May -- Description of the Illustrations.
ISBN
  • 9781905375936
  • 190537593X
OCLC
  • 794706859
  • SCSB-11962863
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library