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Gregorio Leti, Roman Puttanism. Critical edition edited by Danilo Romei, Lulu 2019, p.8:
"(...) The motif of the whores' conclave was popular and took root in the Roman environment; in fact, it returns with Il Congresso delle Puttane , of which only the Giornata prima is preserved in file F 6424 of the State Archives of Florence. The text provides as a certain element of dating the day of the congress («Friday 17 January» [c. 81r]) and naturally the fact that we are in the time of the conclave. In consideration of this, it can only be the conclave for the death of Pope Clement IX (Giulio Rospigliosi), which occurred on 9 December 1669: the conclave took place from 20 December 1669 to 26 April 1670 (Cardinal Emilio Altieri was elected with the name of Clement X). No other conclave of the late seventeenth century is compatible with the date of 17 January. Therefore the Congress is truly linked, in strict chronological sequence, to the Conclave of women and with Puttanism. On the other hand, it is enough to skim the text to see how frequently the same names and the same (or similar) circumstances recur. But the satirical verve has greatly diluted and slips into trivial gossip that after so much time can only have lost its bite; even the style has settled into a rather depressed colloquiality. The brilliant and scandalous idea of 1665 is becoming normalized into routine writing. But ultimately the Giornata prima is almost only a prologue and perhaps it would be unfair to expect more."
Further on, Romei, in the note to the text, dwells on the Congressional witness, declaring:
"The text is preserved in a mutilated state (only the Giornata Prima is present) on pages 79r-90v of file F 6424 (formerly F 6410) of the State Archives of Florence. It is part of a miscellany of writings on curial subjects, some satirical, some simply informative. It occupies exactly one file of 12 cards (six sheets folded in two). It is printed in a handwriting that is not easily datable (late seventeenth century?)."
In reality, this manuscript transmits the lesson of the second day, UNPUBLISHED AND UNKNOWN , which begins on p.41 and ends with the end of the text on p.105. A manuscript to be studied.
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