[Sca-cooks] "an account of the banquets" 1480

[emilio szabo]

Has anyone had the chance to examine this source, mentioned here?

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/vatican/humanism.html


Le nozze di Costantio          Sforza e Camilla d'Aragona 
(The marriage of Costantio Sforza and Camilla of Aragon) 
In Latin and Italian
Copied for Costantio Sforza by Lionardo da Colle
Parchment
1480 
State weddings have always been occasions for public celebrations, and          
never more so than during the Renaissance, an age famous for pageantry          
and festival. This fifteenth-century wedding book records the festivities          
surrounding the marriage of two minor members of great Italian 
families--Costantio          Sforza, nephew of the Duke of Milan, and Camilla of 
Aragon, natural daughter          of the King of Naples, in 1475. Their son 
Giovanni married Lucrezia Borgia          in 1493. The wedding book contains 
copies of the poems and speeches written          in honor of the occasion 
(including a two-hour-long Latin oration by the          minor humanist Pandolfo 
Colenuccio), an account of the banquets and jousting,          and drawings, 
shown here, of the costumes and floats. 

Back to lurking again,

E.