Stuk 83 - Letter from Count Arturo della Rochetta to [Thomas Cecil Smith-?] Woolley

1 folded sheet

Carlton on Trent, Newark, Notts. - Is trying to 'reduce the Pasquinade in readable Italian. Hopes that Woolley and Aldis Wright will both accept the Countess's invitation for Monday. Has 'quite forgotten the game of Primiera' which he played occasionally in southern Italy, 'nearly half a century ago', but remembers 'enough for getting the key of the epigram'; the game is still played today, and he can talk to some Neapolitans in London to refresh his memory of it.

Text in Italian follows letter, headed 'Interlocution Pasquino & Marforio Romano'

• Engels
• Italiaans

Count della Rochetta is thanked by Aldis Wright for help with the Pasquinade, in his edition of the English works of Roger Ascham, p. vi

Ascham, R., & Wright, W. (1904). English works : Toxophilus ; Report of the affaires and state of Germany ; The scholemaster / Roger Ascham ; edited by William Aldis Wright. (Cambridge English classics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.