Sarpii's History of the Council of Trent
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Author: Sarpi, Paul
Title: Historia Concilii Tridentini
Place Published: Leipzig
Publisher:Heybey
Date Published: 1699
Description:
Author: Sarpi, Paul
Title: Historia Concilii Tridentini
Place Published: Leipzig
Publisher:Heybey
Date Published: 1699
Description:
[xxxvi], 1434, [38], 252 pp. Engraved frontispiece. (4to) 20.5x16.5 cm (8x6½") early full vellum over boards, spine lettered in an early hand.
First published in 1619. Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623) was a Venetian historian, prelate, scientist, canon lawyer, and statesman active on behalf of the Venetian Republic during the period of its successful defiance of the papal interdict (1605-1607) and its war (1615-1617) with Austria over the Uskok pirates. His writings, were frankly polemical and highly critical of the Catholic Church and its Scholastic tradition. Sarpi was also an experimental scientist, a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei.
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Light wear and soiling to vellum; paper browned throughout; very good.
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