attrib. Fra Paolo Sarpi - Memoria inedita sul governo di Venezia - 1760

Fra Paolo Sarpi - Unpublished Memoir on the Government of Venice - 1760

Author: Fra Paolo Sarpi (attributed)

Unpublished memoir presented to the Veneto Senate by the celebrated Fra Paolo Sarpi. About the way the Republic should govern for a good and lasting administration of its State.

Place of publication, Publisher and Year: In Colonia [false imprint], at Pietro Mortier, 1760.

Physical Description: 12mo (approximately 13 x 19 cm), pp. [1-3] 4-119 [120].

Contemporary stiff paper wrappers with handmade multicolored marbled paper (comb/wave pattern), spine finished by hand with period handwritten annotations. Text set in elegant italic and clear roman type, with decorative initials and typographic headpieces.

Conditions:

Copy in good-to-fair general condition. The binding shows marginal wear and small defects to the spine, typical of a period pasteboard. Interiors healthy, fresh, and well preserved, with light foxing and scattered browning due to the quality of the era’s paper, but without significant loss.

Historical-legal content: A rare eighteenth-century edition of this celebrated political-institutional treatise attributed to the great Servite Venetian Fra Paolo Sarpi, addressed to the State Inquisitors. The work outlines the Serenissima Republic of Venice’s “reason of state,” analyzing relations with the Papacy, the Empire, and the governance of internal and external power."} } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } }