1 Lord Molesworth to Lady Molesworth, 18 May 1717 (Molesworth Papers, file 13; formerly at Lough Rynn, Ireland, Clement Collection, but present whereabouts unknown); transcribed by author in 1972. Nothing is known of Galilei’s possible sojourn in Ireland in 1717, but he is documented as being there in 1718.

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14 On Castletown, see Maurice Craig, Knight of Glin and John Cornforth, ‘Castletown I-III’, Country Life, 145, 27 March 1969, pp. 722–26, and 145, 3 April 1969, pp. 798–802; on Kimbolton, see Downes, Baroque Architecture, 82; Arthur Oswald, ‘Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire’, Country Life, 5, 12, 19, and 26 December 1968, pp. 1280ft.; Galilei’s authorship of the east portico has recently been rejected (Simon Thurley, ‘Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire’, Country Life, 30 March 2006, 13, pp. 66–71).

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28 Although the ‘Letter’ was only published later, Galilei must have known it first hand through the Molesworths ( Downes, Kerry, ‘The Publication of Shaftesbury’s “Letter concerning Design”‘, Architectural History, 27 (1984), pp. 519–22)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Klein, Shaftesbury; Carey, Daniel, Locke, Shaftesbury and Hutcheson. Contesting Diversity in the Enlightenment and Beyond (Cambridge, 2006), pp. 98–149.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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31 Lord Molesworth to Lady Molesworth, 13 October 1716 (Toesca, ‘Galilei’, 211, doc. 6a).

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36 Toesca, ‘Galilei’, pp. 203, 206, doc. 18, wrongly took Lord Stanhope to be the Lord Chancellor mentioned in Hewett’s letter. Thomas Parker, created Lord Macclesfield in 1716, was appointed Lord Chancellor on 12 May 1718; Stanhope was then Secretary of State.

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55 Toesca, ‘Galilei’, pp. 197–99; Kerry Downes, Baroque Architecture, pp. 43–49; McParland, ‘New Junta’.

56 Downes, English Baroque, pp. 46–47.

57 Alessandro Galilei to his brother Filippo, London, 19 February 1717 (Toesca, ‘Galilei’, p. 207, doc. 3).

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63 Thomas Hewett to Alessandro Galilei, 13 July 1719 (Toesca, ‘Galilei’, p. 216, doc. 18,; McParland, ‘New Junta’.

64 McParland, ‘New Junta’.

65 Ibid.

66 Toesca, ‘Galilei’, pp. 197–200, fig. 1; McParland, ‘New Junta’. There is also a written statement by Galilei, in English and Italian, justifying the choice of the site (‘on the highest part and in the best air of all the town’) and a proposal to finance the building, entitled ‘Reflection upon the Scituation [sic] of the Royal Palace’ (Florence, Archivio di Stato, Carte Galilei, filza 21, f. 417: Toesca, ‘Galilei’, pp. 210–11, doc. 5).

67 The Banqueting House is shown as a rectangular structure south of the ripetta. Some of these features are referred to in Daniel Defoe’s description of a scheme for a royal palace (A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain (London, 1724–26), letter V).

68 Kanayama, Hirosama, ‘Paolo Falconieri e il suo modello di Palazzo Pitti del 1681’, Pietro da Cortona: atti del convegno internazionale Roma-Firenze 1997, ed. Frommel, Christoph L. (Milan, 1998), pp. 385–89 Google Scholar; Fara, Amelio, ‘Bernardo Buontalenti, il palazzo, il giardino e la piazza Pitti fino all’Ottocento’, Palazzo Pitti, la reggia rivelata (Florence, 2003), pp. 357–59.Google Scholar

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71 Toesca, ‘Galilei’, pp. 200–01; Downes, Baroque Architecture, pp. 83–84.

72 Toesca, ‘Galilei’, pp. 200–01, fig. 4.

73 Florence, Archivio di Stato, Carte Galilei, filza 14, fasc. 1, f. 315V.

74 Lord Molesworth to Alessandro Galilei, Breckdenstown, 30 June 1719 (Florence, Archivio di Stato, Carte Galilei, filza 21, f. 10).

75 Craig, Glin and Cornforth, ‘Castletown’, pp. 722ff., 798ff., 885ff., with entire building history.

76 Alessandro Galilei, undated draft, most probably to Senatore Cerretani in Florence (Toesca, ‘Galilei’, p. 213, doc. 10).

77 See n. 74.

78 Craig, Glin and Cornforth, ‘Castletown’; McParland, Public Building, pp. 224–25.

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82 Craig has already drawn attention to this (see n. 13).

83 Edward McParland has argued (oral communication) that the expression ‘palace’ could not refer to a country seat but only to plans for a royal palace. This is a good suggestion. One should perhaps take into account that Galilei was writing this letter in English, and for him a country seat would be a palace; but he knew English very well. At the moment we must leave this open to discussion.

84 Huntingdon, County Record Office, Manchester Papers, DDM/1A/N0. 1, mounted on canvas, signed ‘A.G.’, inscribed on verso: ‘Front of Castle’. First published by Whistler, Laurence, The Imagination of Sir John Vanbrugh and his Fellow Artists (London, 1954), p. 140, fig. 49Google Scholar. Whistler attributed the details to N. Hawksmoor; Pevsner, Nikolaus, The Buildings of England, Cambridgeshire (Harmondsworth, 1954), pp. 278–79 Google Scholar, as copy after Vanbrugh; Downes, Baroque Architecture, p. 82, as Galilei; Oswald, ‘Kimbolton’, fig. 4; Lees-Milne, James, English Country Houses, Baroque 1685;-1715 (London, 1970), p. 106, fig. 169.Google Scholar

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89 As the traveller’s notes of 1724 (see note 87) and 1727 (Thurley, ‘Kimbleton’, p. 68) were still referring to windows, these may have been closed up later.

90 At the end of June 1719 Manchester wrote to Galilei about Kimbolton: ‘The Front next the Town is finished and what you designed over the Gate looks very well’ (see n. 88). Since he describes this as ‘the Front next the Town’, he must be referring to the west facade which had recently been remodelled by Vanbrugh. Galilei’s contribution to this was a crowning feature (over the entrance in the middle of the facade) which enclosed the earl’s coat of arms. A sketch for this is in the Florentine Archivio di Stato, Carte Galilei, filza 14, fasc. 1, f. 356. This addition was removed in the nineteenth century.

91 Quotation from a letter of Vanbrugh’s (Whistler, Imagination, p. 133.

92 Thurley, ‘Kimbolton’, p. 68.

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