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Register of the despatches of Alvise Contarini, Venetian Ambassador to Rome. Vol....

Catalogue reference: PRO 30/25/88

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This record is about the Register of the despatches of Alvise Contarini, Venetian Ambassador to Rome. Vol.... dating from 1645 Sept. 30 - 1646 Dec. 15 in the series Venetian Manuscripts. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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PRO 30/25/88
Date
1645 Sept. 30 - 1646 Dec. 15
Description

Register of the despatches of Alvise Contarini, Venetian Ambassador to Rome. Vol. I.

Note
764pp This is a duplicate of the preceding volume as far as 12 May 1646. Mr Rawdon Brown has written the following note on a fly-leaf:- "This Alvise Contarini, della porta di ferro at S. Francesco della Vigna, where his monument exists, died Doge of Venice on the 15th January 1684, and he was the last Doge of Venice, who bore the august name of Contarini. He was accompanied by his brother Giovanni, to whom see an autograph letter by the embryo Pope Pietro Ottoboni, in my Busta, No. 535." In Portfolio 19 there is only a translation of it in Mr Rawdon Brown's hand.
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