Details

Other Title:

Come debba gouernarsi internamente et esternamente la Republica Venetiana

Subjects:

Venice (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 17th century.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Work on the government of Venice, questionably attributed to the Venetian Servite monk Paolo Sarpi and supposedly written by him for the Inquistori di Stato, the highest decision-making body in the Venetian Republic. First published in 1681 under title: Opinione del padre Paolo servita, come debba governarsi la Republica veneziana per haverse il perpetuo dominio.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r), where work is ascribed to Padre Frà Paolo Servita.
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 84; 1-84; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto (some numerals trimmed off).
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary vellum (Zacour-Hirsch) with village scene painted on lower cover; faint ink sketches of human figures on upper cover.
Origin: Written in Italy after 1615 (f. 1r).
Same text as UPenn Ms. Codex 559.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1952.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 155 (Ms. Lea 35).
A. Bianchi-Giovini, Biografia di Frà Paolo Sarpi, (Basle, 1847), pp. 479-480, no. 1, lists the Opinione under "opere falsamente attribuite a Frà Paolo Sarpi."

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 499

OCLC:

155965474