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Savoy (France and Italy) -- Politics and government

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Sfondrati family letters

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233294914]
Identifier: Vault MSS 771
Scope and Contents

Contains handwritten letters on paper, many of which are partially or entirely in code. The letters are written to Pope Gregory XIV and his brother, Paolo Sfondrati, and relate to the family's political and Catholic Church relationships in Italy and Spain.

Dates: 1583
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Sfondrati family letters

Paolo Sfondrati correspondence

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 518
Scope and Contents

Contains letters written and received by Sfondrati during his service as ambassador to the Duke of Savoy. Among his correspondents were Carlo d'Aragona Tagliavia, governor of Milan, and François de Vergy, governor of Burgundy. Materials focus on relationship between Spanish holdings and Savoy, and date from between 1581 and 1584.

Dates: 1581-1584
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Paolo Sfondrati correspondence

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