Secret despatches of Angelo Contarini from Rome. Vol.I. NOTE: Ab. 600pp Mr Rawdon...

Secret despatches of Angelo Contarini from Rome. Vol.I.

NOTE: Ab. 600pp Mr Rawdon Brown writes at the beginning of this volume:-"These despatches were written by Angelo Contarini- see the historian Nani (Vol. 1 p.496), and the signature at the foot of Letter No. 6- also Despatch No. 4 in the Register of this same Contarini, A.D. 1640, May 26, wherein, detailing his audience, he mentions having told the Pope how glad he was 'et di rinovar in esso la memoria del mio passato lungo servito prestato giá Xci anni presso di Lei', &c" This Contarini was of the branch resident in the parish of San Benetto in Venice, and, from the family palace there, these manuscripts were brought to me in the Casa Paulinelli at San Moïse, from whence I sent them to Edward Cheney in the Cá Corner Spinelli at St. Angelo (having purchased them on his account), and in 1840 he presented them to me in the Cá Ferro at Sta Maria Zobenigo."

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