Opinione ... In qual modo debba governarsi la republica Venezia internamente et esternamente per haver[e] perpetuo dominio : con la quale si ponderano l'interessi di tutti i prencipi da lui descritta per publica com[m]is[s]ione l'anno 1615 / del Padre Frà Paolo Servita, consultor di stato, datta alli Sig. Inquisitori di Stato.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623, attributed name.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

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

Venice (Italy).

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1952.

Physical Description:

84 leaves : paper ; 196 x 140 (175 x 102) mm bound to 200 x 145 mm

Production:

[Italy], [after 1615]

Other Title:

Come debba gouernarsi internamente et esternamente la Republica Venetiana

Language Note:

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.

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