Raggvaglio della solenne comparsa
Subtitle: fatta in Roma gli otto di gennaio MDCLXXXVII. dall'illvstrissimo, et eccellentissimo signor conte di Castelmaine ambasciadore straordinario della Sagra Real Maestà di Giacomo Secondo rè d'Inghilterra, Scozia, Francia, et Ibernia, difensore della fede alla Santa Sede Apostolica, in andare pvblicamente all'vdienza della Santità di Nostro Signore Papa Innocenzo Vndecimo
By: dedicato all'Altezza serenissima della dvchessa di Modena da Giovanni Michele Writ maggiordomo del medesimo signor ambasciadore
Contributors: Lenardi, Giovanni Battista, 1656-1704; Westerhout, Arnold van, 1651-1725; Cornely, Andrea, active 1678; Ferri, Ciro, 1634-1689
Publisher: Nella stamperia di Domenico Antonio Ercole
Published: 1687
Place of publication: In Roma
Language: ita
Number of pages: 90
Subjects: Travel; Portraits; Visits of state; Early works to 1800; Carriages and carts; Dinners and dining; Table setting and decoration; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Notes: The last page is blank.

Imprint date from dedication on p. 6 "Roma li 30. aprile 1687."

Printer's statement in Latin on recto of last unnumbered leaf.

Signatures: A-L⁴ M(196) ( -M4) [$2 signed ( -A1); missigning M2 as MI]; 6 leaves, pp. [1-2] 3-33 [34] 35-39 [40] 41-45 [46] 47 [48] 49 [50] 51 [52] 53 [54] 55-65 [66] 67 [68] 69 [70] 71 [72] 73 [74] 75-87 [88] 89-91 [92] [2] [missnumbering 91 as 88].

On A2 a large pictorial head-piece depicting an allegorical portrait of Queen Mary of Modena, consort of James II., and a historiated initial, engraved by Arnold van Westerhout after Giovanni Battista Lenardi.

Illustrations comprise two unnumbered plates, including one folded, and fourteen plates numbered 1-8 and 10-15: a frontispiece depicting James II. kneeling down in front of Innocent XI.; two plates depicting papal and English royal coats of arms with allegorical figures; six plates depicting the lateral, front, and rear views of Earl of Castlemaine's ornately carved carriage, a work by Andrea Cornely; the folded plate (impression: 115 x 26 cm.) unfolds to display a long table richly decorated with tableware, elaborately folded napkins and sculptural table decorations made of sugarpaste (cf. p. 61), and six plates depicting the individual sugar sculptures.

Illustrated with engravings by Arnold van Westerhout, after Giovanni Battista Lenardi, Philippus Michael Camers, Ciro Ferri and Andrea Cornely.

The text describes the itinerary of the journey of the Earl of Castlemaine from London to Rome; decorations of the Palazzo Pamphilij in Rome, the papal and the royal coats of arms; the carriage, and the banquet: the feast, the choreographic performances and details of table setting and decoration.

Includes an occasional poem in Greek and Latin, with Italian translation, p. 89-90.

Life and the arts in the Baroque palaces of Rome, p. 224-228