1792 LETTER SIGNED by FERDINAND I, DUKE OF PARMA, PIACENZA & GUASTALLA For Sale
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1792 LETTER SIGNED by FERDINAND I, DUKE OF PARMA, PIACENZA & GUASTALLA:
$150.00
Ferdinand I, Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla (1751-1802). HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by FERDINAND I, DUKE OF PARMA, PIACENZA AND GUASTALLA thanking "Your Eminence" for his good wishes for the upcoming Christmas. Colorno, December 14, 1792. Over 65 words penned in a secretarial hand on 9-1/8 inch high by 6-7/8 inch wide watermarked laid paper with an attached leaf. Writing from Colorno in the Province of Parma, Ferdinand I, Duke of Parma thanks his "Eminence" for his good wishes and Christmas greetings. Loosely translated, the letter reads: ["I received Your Eminence's dear letter of November 19, and I thank you for it wholeheartedly for the good wishes you offer me on the occasion of the upcoming Holy Christmas. I respond to these with my own equally lively and sincere wishes, and pray your Eminence to be fully persuaded of them. I also pray you to believe me, always with the most distinguished and true esteem and friendship." Signed "Ferdinand". There is an early annotation in ink at the top of the attached address leaf. There are later light annotations in pencil at the bottom of the letter. Folded vertically and horizontally, else near fine.Baptised Ferdinando Maria Filippo Lodovico Sebastiano Francesco Giacomo, Ferdinand I (1751-1802) was Duke of Parma, Piacanza and Guastalla. A member of the House of Bourbon-Parma, he was considered the favorite grandson of King Louis XV and was also a grandson in the line of King Philip V of Spain. Ferdinand I is sometimes considered one of the minor exponents of Enlightened absolutism for expelling the Jesuits and abolishing the jurisdiction of the Inquisition from his domains. In 1801, he ceded the Duchy of Parma to France in the Treaty of Aranjuez and his son, Louis was later granted the Grand Duchy of Tuscany (then Etruria) in compensation. Although the French cited other reasons for his death, Ferdinand I is suspected to have died in Parma of poisoning at the age of 51. Still opposing the Treaty of Aranjuez, on his deathbed, Ferdinand had named his wife Maria Amalia as head of a regency council but the regency only lasted a few days before the Duchy of Parma was annexed to France.
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