Volume 17 (2011) No. 1

Beth L. Glixon

Giulia Masotti, Venice, and the Rise of the Prima Donna

Table 1: Masotti Letters Written from Venice during the Carnival Season[a]

I-Rvat,

Archivio Chigi 33

Masotti Correspondence (MC)

Date

Season

1668/1669, carnival ends March 5, 1669

579r–580v

8

January 1, 1668 [1669]

581r–582r

9

January 12, 1668 [1669]

555r–556r

10

January 19, 1668 [1669]

558r–v

11

February 2, 1668 [1669]

559r–560r

12

February 9,  1668 [1669]

1670/1671, carnival ends February 10, 1671

583r

18

December 6, 1670

584r

19

December 13, 1670

618r–619v

20

[January 3, 1671]

587r

21

January 17, 1671

588r

22

January 24, 1671

591r

23

February 7, 1671

1671/1672, carnival ends March 1, 1672

606r–v

33

November 29, 1671

607r

34

December 19, 1671

585r–586r

35

January 9, 1671 [1672]

589r–590v

36

February 6, 1671 [1672]

1672/1673, carnival ends February 14, 1673

614r

40 [Polesella]

November 11, 1672

615r

41

December 17, 1672

608r

42

February 4, 1672 [1673]

609r

43

February 18, 1672 [1673]

[a] A number of other letters were written from Venice or from the villa of the Grimani (Polesella) outside of the carnival season.