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Opinione / del padre fra Paolo seruita consultore di stato datta alli ss. inquisitori di stato in qual modo debba governarsi la Republica di Venetia internamente et esternamente.

Author/Creator:
Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623, attributed name.
Publication:
[Italy], [between 1600 and 1650]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
62 leaves : paper ; 198 x 145 (173 x 90) mm bound to 206 x 148 mm
Status/Location:
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Subjects:
Venice (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 17th century.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.
Language:
Italian.
Summary:
Work on the governance of Venice, 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. 2r).
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 62 + ii (contemporary paper); [1-62]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary vellum.
Origin: Written in Italy in the first half of the 17th century.
Same text as UPenn Ms. Codex 499.
Penn Provenance:
Inscription on upper cover: "All' Illustrissimo Borgondio Ambasciatore dell'illustrissima città di Brescia mio fratre carissimo."
Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1957.
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. 167 (Ms. Lea 94).
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 559
OCLC:
155966319