Festival personnel

Pio da Savoia, Ascanio

d.1649
Role: Humanist
Festivals: Tournament in Ferrara for the wedding of Giovanni Francesco Sacchetti and Beatrice Estense Tassone, Ferrara, February-March 1631
Festival Books: Il torneo a piedi ... e l'Alcina Maga favola pescatoria fatta ... alla presenza di tre altezze serenissime di Mantova, e de i due eminentissimi cardinal Sacchetti, e Spada, nel carnouale dell'anno 1631. (published Ferrara, 1631)
ET I (pgs.59-60,64) Savoiard dramatic poet.
Librettist.
Text for intermedii to Aminta at Parmesan celelbrations in 1628.

Plantin, Christophe

aka Christoffel Plantijn.
1520-1589
Role: Printer
Festivals: Entry into Brussels of Matthias, Archduke of Austria (later Matthias I, Holy Roman Emperor) and election of William, Prince of Orange, as Governor of Brabant, Brussels 1578
Entry into Antwerp of Francois, duc d'Alencon et Anjou, Antwerp, 1582
Festival Books: Sommare beschrijuinghe va[n]de triumphelijcke incomst vanden doorluchtighen ende hooghgheboren aeerts-hertoge Matthias: binnen die princelijcke stadt van Brussele: in t'iaer ons Heeren M.D.L.XXVIII. ... .(published Antwerp, 1579)
La ioyeuse [et] magnifique entrée de monseigneur Francoys, fils de France, et frere unicque du roy, par la grace de dieu, duc de Brabant, d'Anjou, Alencon, Berri, [et]c. en sa tres-renomée ville d'Anvers. (published Antwerp, 1582)
Plantin, widow of:
Festivals: Entry of Ernst, Archduke of Austria, into Antwerp, 14th June 1594
Festival Books: Descriptio publicae gratulationis, spectaculorum et ludorum, in adventu Sereniss[imi] Principis Ernesti Archiducis Austriae, Ducis Burgundiae, Comitis Habsp[urgi] aurei vellleris equitis, Belgicis provinciiis a regia Ma[gesta]te Cathol[ici] praefecti, An[no] M.D.XCIII. XVIII. Kal[endris] Iulias, aliisque diebus Antwerpiae editorum. Cui est praefixa, De Belgii Principatu a Romano in ea Prouincia Imperio ad nostra usq[ue] tempora breuis narratio. (published Antwerp, 1595)
Humanist, printer, publisher.
Moretus, son in law.
1968, Christophe Plantin Prize created, given to a Belgian civilian who resides abroad and made significant contributions to cultural, artistic or scientific activities..
Painted by Rubens.
1568-72 Biblia Regia.

Poletti, Andrea

Role: Printer
Festivals: Visit to Venice of Ernst-August, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Venice 1625
Festival Books: Giuochi festiui, e militari, danze, serenate, machine, boscareccia artificiosa, regatta solenne, et altri sontuosi apprestamenti di allegrezza esposti alla sodisfattione uniuersale dalla generosità dell'A. S. d'Ernesto Augusto duca di Brunsuich ... .(published Venice, 1686)

Pontio, Pacifico

Role: Printer
Festivals: Entry of Margaret of Austria into Milan in 1598
Festival Books: Apparato fatto dalla città di Milano per riceuere la serenissima regina d[onna] Margarita d'Austria sposata al potentiss[imo] re di Spagna d[on] Filippo III nostro signore. (published Milan, 1599)

Porcacchi, Thomaso

c.1530-c.1585
Role: Author
Festivals: Entry of Henri III into Venice, Treviso, Ferrara and Mantua, 1574
Festival Books: Le attioni d'Arrigo terzo re di Francia, et quarto di Polonia, descritte in dialogo (published Venice, 1574)
ET I (pgs.9,103,106-9,125-6,141) Italian publisher and author.

Portio, A.

Role: Engraver
Festivals: Visit to Venice of Ernst-August, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Venice 1685
Festival Books: Giuochi festiui, e militari, danze, serenate, machine, boscareccia artificiosa, regatta solenne, et altri sontuosi apprestamenti di allegrezza esposti alla sodisfattione uniuersale dalla generosità dell'A. S. d'Ernesto Augusto duca di Brunsuich ... .(published Venice, 1686)

Pouilly, Nicolas de

1626-1696
Role: Engraver
Festivals: Entry into Paris of Louis XIV and Maria Teresa, Infanta of Spain, Paris 1660
Festival Books: L'entrée triomphante de leurs maiestez Louis XIV. roy de France et de Navarre, et Marie Therese d'Austriche son espouse, dans la ville de Paris ... au retour de la signature de la paix generalle et de leur heureux mariage. (published Paris, 1660)

Prévosteau, Jacques

Role: Author
Festivals: Entry of Charles IX and his wife Elisabeth, Archduchess of Austria, into Paris, 6th March 1571
Festival Books: Description des appareilz, arcs triumphaux, figures [et] portraicts dressez en l'honneur du roy, au iour de son entreé en la ville de Paris ... (published Lyons, [1571])

Puget de la Serre, Jean

Role: Author
Festivals: Entry of Maria de'Medici into England, 1632
Entry of Maria de'Medici into Mons, Brussels and Antwerp, 1631
Entry of Maria de'Medici into the Low Countries, 1637
Festival Books: Histoire de l'entree de la reyne mere du roy tres-chrestien, dans la Grande-Bretaigne. (published London, 1639)
Histoire curieuse de tout ce qui c'est passé a l'entree de la reyne mere du roy treschrestien dans les villes des Pays Bas. (published Antwerp, 1632)
Histoire de l'entree de la reyne mere du roy treschrestien, dans les provinces unies des Pays-Bas. Enrichie de planches. (published London, 1639)

Pullen, Octavian

Role: Bookseller
Festivals: Entry of Maria de'Medici into England, 1632
Entry of Maria de'Medici into the Low Countries, 1637
Festival Books: Histoire de l'entree de la reyne mere du roy tres-chrestien, dans la Grande-Bretaigne. (published London, 1639)
Histoire de l'entree de la reyne mere du roy treschrestien, dans les provinces unies des Pays-Bas. Enrichie de planches. (published London, 1639)