Object details

Object number

2.b.3.4.3

Creator(s)

Roberto Bellarmino (Montepulciano, 1542 - 1621, Rome)

Title

Draft Letter for Pope Marcellus II

Date

1599-1621

Medium

Ink on paper

Provenance

Collection of Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), scholar and critic, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Charles Eliot Norton on 24 March 1908 for $2,000. (for set of 8 letters, 2.b.3.4.1-8)

Commentary

Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.

Bibliography

Seymour de Ricci and W.J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, Vol. I (New York, 1935), pp. 935-6, no. 36.

Gallery

Long Gallery

Case

Dante Case

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