Letter from Geronimo Cipelletto, Cremona, to Bartolomeo Corsini, London, 1583 [manuscript].

Italy, 12 September 1583.

1 item ; 22 x 34 cm

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Italy.

FAST ACC 271965 (flat)

From dealer's description: "Incorporated with copy letter dated 22 August 1583. These two letters sent from Cremona in 1583 by the mercantile agent Geronimo Cipelletto to the prominent Florentine merchant Bartolomeo Corsini (1545-1613), resident in London, concern transactions in the Anglo-Italian cloth trade of the late Elizabethan period. Both relate to the sale of English baize (coarse woollen cloth) in Italy and the export of fustian (heavy cotton cloth) from Cremona to London via Nuremberg. The first records details including the different markings for the graded qualities of cloth, notification of payments from Venice and problems with the network of professional horseback couriers being delayed. In the second letter Giovanni Battista Rota, minister in the Italian Reformed Church in Antwerp, is mentioned in relation to exchange commission. Other content here includes discussion of sales in account with Capponi in Venice, exchange rate fluctuations, the rejection of a shipment of serge cloth by local friars, details of the Milan baize market, and a request for a sample of flannel. Provenance: Corsini archive (dispersed Christies Robson Lowe, 1984-1988)."|Ordered from Samuel Gedge, D9378, 2019-12-16, Catalogue 29, item 10.