Discorso sulla Potesta del Principe and other writings : [Venice?], 1611-1665.

0.40 linear ft. (1 box)

Italian

Phillipps manuscripts 21007, 7616, 6166. Purchased from H. P. Kraus on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1990.

Venetian theologian, scholar and patriot.

Collection contains: "Discorso sulla Potesta del Principe," a bound autograph manuscript with a table of contents in the hand of Fulgenzio Micanzio, Sarpi's disciple, with notes in Greek and Hebrew added in red ink in an unidentified hand; seventeenth century copies of nineteen letters (parts of which are written in numeric code) written by Sarpi to various scholars, with a verification of their authenticity signed by Robert Ubaldini, Bishop of Montepulciano (1607-1622); and a manuscript copy in an unidentified hand of "In qual modo debba governarsi la Republica di Venezia internamente per havere perpetuo Dominio ...L'Anno 1615," a tract falsely attributed to Sarpi until 1685.

Available on microfilm from Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

June 01, 2002

Paolo Sarpi, Discorso sulla Protesta del Principe and Other Writings. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Paolo Sarpi, Discorso sulla Protesta del Principe and Other Writings. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Treatises - Venice - 17th century.