Switzerland | Letter of recommendation for the envoy of five Catholic Cantons, to the Governor of Milan, 1563

Swiss Confederation

Letter of recommendation on behalf of the Catholic Cantons of Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Lucerne and Zug to the Duke of Sessa, Governor-General of Milan and their de facto ruler in the name of the King of Spain

hoping that their envoy Walter Roll, a member of the Privy Council of Uri, will be granted a fair hearing and a friendly reception, in German, 1 page, folio, integral address leaf with papered seal, dispatch slits

[with:] contemporary translations into Spanish (two) and Italian, recipient's endorsement, altogether 5 pages, folio, Lucerne, “the Monday before the Ascension", [26 July] 1563, damp staining, mainly to page edges and lightly at crease

PROVENANCE:

Sotheby's, London, 5 December 1991, lot 572