Incipt: "Il Re Giacomo alla Regina sua Consorte"

"Il Re Giacomo alla Regina sua Consorte / nel partirsi da S. Germano per l'Inghilterra. 1692. / Sonetto / Cadai Regina al Fato; e mi convenne / Lasciar la propria Reggia, e i patrii Regni; / L'Empietà mi turbò gli alti disegni / Né i rai di vera Fa mirar sostenne. // Dall'Aquilon si rea tempesta venne, / A cui non valse oppor forza, o ritegni; / Or vado a vendicar gli oltraggi indegni / Con mille Squadre, e mille alate Antenne. // Deh soffri, o' mia Regina un breve affanno, / Con questa desora io m'aprirò la via, / Espugnerò l'Usurpator Tiranno. // Tu incessanti preghiere al Cielo invia; / Così il Trono Reale del suol Britanno / Del mio brando, e tuoi voti il premio fia. // Del Sig.^re Ramazzini di Modena".

Manuscript on paper in Italian. Bifolium (286x205 mm) written on the first leaf recto only. Double watermark: three mounts and a full human figure, possibly a craftsman, with the initials “BB” at the bottom. Traces of folding. Well preserved.

An apparently unpublished and unknown sonnet, attributed here to a certain Mr. Ramazzini of Modena (perhaps the famous physician Bernardino, 1633-1714), in which the author pretends to be King James II Stuart of England (1633-1701) addressing his wife Maria Beatrice d'Este (1658-1718), better known as Mary of Modena, inviting her to pray for him as he prepares to leave for England to regain his lost throne. James II Stuart was King of England from 1685 to 1688. After his deposition in 1688, he took refuge in France with his wife and lived in exile at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, made available to them by his cousin Louis XIV. Between 1689 and 1696, James made several attempts, with the help of the King of France, to regain the throne, both militarily and through conspiracy, but without success.

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