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Background Essay
Title: Supplication
Alternate Title: Supplicatio
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Ravizi, Giovanni
Date Issued: 1469-11-28
Summary: Supplication of Giovanni Ravizi, a writing master, to the lord of Milan (Galeazzo Maria Sforza?), asking for an amendation of what Ravizi believes is an unjust condemnation.
Region: Milan
Type of Resource: Manuscript document
Genre: Prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf; 19 x 27 cm.
Material: Paper
Script: Humanistic
Topic: Politics and government
Law
Subject: Pleas (Criminal procedure)
Writing
Notes: Layout: manuscript of 16 lines. Incipit: "Illustrissime et excellentissime princeps. È constreto recorrere a la excellentissima Signoria Vostra..."
Repository: The Newberry Library
Call Number: Newberry Wing MS folio ZW 1 .469