Sunday, May 24, 2020

Excerpt from Charles Longland's letter to secretary John Thurloe on Kristina having bought the Palazzo Farnese, dated March 10, 1656

Source:

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/thurloe-papers/vol4/pp559-569#h3-0015

The letter:

The queen of Sweden has bauht a gallant pallas in Rom for her life, which is a syn she intends to mak her aboad there.


Above: Kristina.


Above: The Palazzo Farnese. Photo courtesy of Myrabelle at Wikimedia Commons.

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