Letter signed to Bartolomeo Corsini [manuscript].

Venice, 1586 May 19 and 24.

2 sheets ; 34.5 x 24 cm

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Italy.

FAST ACC 271272 (flat)

Purchase made possible by The B. F. Saul Rare Book Acquisitions Fund. From dealer's description:"[CAPPONI.] [Letter signed to Bartolomeo Corsini concerning mercantile transactions in the wool trade.] Venice, 19 May & 24 May 1586. Letter signed, ink on paper. Folio (23.5 x 34.5cm) [2] pages in Italian, in two different hands, on bifolium, verso of second leaf of bifolium with manuscript address panel & small embossed paper seal attached by wax (blank lower half of second leaf excised contemporaneously for reuse), a few tiny tears along old folds, paper uncut, very good. Penned to Bartolomeo Corsini (1545-1613), a prominent Florentine merchant resident in London during the Elizabethan era, this letter dated 19 May 1586 was sent from Venice by the "Eredi di Luigi Capponi" (Heirs of Luigi Capponi), the company formed by a branch of the Capponi family following the death of the wealthy merchant Luigi Capponi (d.1584). With branches in Lyon, Seville, Antwerp, London, Pisa and Venice, the Capponi developed extensive pan-European mercantile interests centred on silk and wool. Updating Corsini on their business affairs, in particular transactions concerning sales of wool, this letter includes mention of several English merchants including payments for transportation made to David Carpenter ("Davit Carpenter") for London to Livorno. Other English names include the prominent London mercer Thomas Cordell ("Ts. Cordell"), the Levant Company member George Salter ("Giorgio Salter") and William Rolles [?] ("Gug.mo Rools"). Mention is made also of transactions at the Easter fair at Lyon. Provenance: Corsini archive." Ordered from Samuel Gedge D9306, 2019-05-29, Cat. 28 #4.