Large 8vo 210x150 mm.; 16 pp. (A8), woodcut initials, large woodcut on last page (depicting a basket of fruits). Colophon: ‘In Roma, Per Francesco Tizzoni, 1687’. Disbound, as issued, but with traces of having been in a binding for some time. Annotation in an ancient hand on title page. Slightly trimmed at the top margin. Good copy.
Celebrations held in Rome for the appointment of Francesco Maria de Medici as Cardinal. Lorenzani wrote numerous plays and several occasional writings for different celebrations.
Russo : “Since the end of the Eighties, however, and more insistently in the last decade of the seventeenth century, L. had begun to dedicate himself to an activity of celebratory news in prose, reported by the six reports published, dedicated to noble parades ... cardinal promotions, up to the detailed rendering of the translation of the Crucifix on the occasion of the jubilee of 1700 …” (translated). Work dedicated to “all’Altezza Srenissima di Vittoria De’ Medici Gran Duchessa di Toscana”.
Emilio Russo Lorenzani, Giovanni Andrea, in DBI; Maria Pia Paoli, Medici, Francesco Maria, in DBI.
https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdmedfm.html