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find the eldest Pandolfini sticking close to the Ginori again. Count
Peccori26 tore his engagement with the Pepi2? and struck u p with the
Parigi28 a singer. This drove out John Pancake2^ w h o u n k n o w n to the
Vitelli had settled eighteen scratches30 (literally) a day on the Parigi,
w h o m Peccori, however, abandoned again in a few days (many were
the mediators to bring it about; Manelli31 has the chief credit of it)
and so little John Pancake enjoys his o w n again at the daily expense
as I said of eighteen scratches per diem.
M u c h blood had like to have been spilt. Bocchineri32 ( w h o m you
have in your list)33 was offended at a little Strozzi's34 having promised
him to go to Siena and not keeping his word, which was not da
cavaliere.35 H e called h i m out, but friends interfering the matter was
m a d e up. Last night there was another. Bali Rinaldi36 took something
ill of Cavaliere Pitti37 w h o had never any design to offend him, and
less inclination tofightwhich the other observing was less tractable,
but as it was near m y box I was desired to intercede on m y first
appearance and before I knew a word of the story Albergotti38 w h o
was mediating said, 'via signore Bali. Ecco un ministro chi e capace di
fare la pace tra ITnghilterra e la Spagna, che non sia mai detto ch'
31. Ottavio Francesco Mannelli (171026. Conte Bernardo Pecori (1720-63),
67), son of Jacopo Mannelli (Libro d'oro,
son of Francesco Maria Pecori (Luigi
Passerini, Memorie genealogico-storiche Quartiere di Santo Spirito, to. ii, n. 5; filza
della famiglia Pecori, Florence, 1868, tav.
3» n. 5).
32. Probably Domenico Andrea Bocchiv; ante 24 June 1741 N S , n. 3; Libro d'oro,
Quartiere di San Giovanni, to. ii, n. 29; neri (1712-76) (Libro d'oro, Quartiere di
Santa Croce, n. 7;filza5, n. 7).
filza 16, n. 10).
33. Presumably the list of persons for
27. Probably Ottavia Macinghi (171777), dau. of Alberto Macinghi, m . (1735) w h o m H W and M a n n were to use ciphers
in their correspondence (see ante 30 July
Francesco Gaspero Pepi (1708-64), son of
Giovanni Niccolo Pepi (Libro d'oro, Quar- 1741 N S , post 5 Sept. 1741 NS).
tiere di Santa Croce, n. 47;filza7, n. 2; 34. Probably Roberto Strozzi (1717-80),
Decime granducali, Arroti del Quartiere di son of Carlo Strozzi (Litta sub Strozzi, tav.
xix; Libro d'oro, Quartiere di Santa Maria
Santa Croce, anno 1764, n. 46).
Novella, xxv and liv, andfilza10, n. 8, filza
28. Maddalena Parigi w h o sang at Venice in 1750 (Taddeo Wiel, / teatri musicali 11, n. 8, n. 9; post 7 Jan. 1743 NS).
35. 'Like a gentleman.'
veneziani, Venice, 1897, p. 182) may be
36. Francesco Maria Rinaldi Generotti
'Maddalena Parigi, donna di volgare con(1715-84), Bali di Cortona, 1736; son of
dizione,' d. 1774, m . Orazio Zanobi Pucci
Bali Leonardo Rinaldi (Libro d'oro, Quar(Litta sub Pucci, tav. viii).
tiere di San Giovanni, to. ii, n. 38;filza17,
29. Giovanino
[Giovanni
Gualberto]
n. 2).
Panciatici ( H W ) .
37. Not identified in Mann's dispatches.
30. Crazie ( H W ) . T h e crazia (i/s of the
38. Perhaps Albergotto Albergotti, or his
paolo or giulio) was worth little more than
a half-penny (Ignazio Orsini, Storia delle father Angiolo T o m m a s o Albergotti (post
14 Jan. 1744 NS, n. 4), or Girolamo Albermonete de' Granduchi di Toscana, Florgotti, Knight of Malta, made chamberlain
ence, 1756, p. 133: C M 1740. x- l o 6 ) -