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Journal headed "Commentaries on the events that have happened in Germany during the...

Catalogue reference: PRO 30/25/121

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PRO 30/25/121
Date
1582-83-84
Description

Journal headed "Commentaries on the events that have happened in Germany during the embassy of the most illustrious Lippomano, ambassador in ordinary to Rudolf the Emperor."

Note
278pp Mr Rawdon Brown has written the following on a fly-leaf:- "This most amusing journal was written by one in his 49th year, supposing him to have attended the Council of Trent (as stated at page 3) A.D. 1545. I imagine he may have been Lippomano's secretary. According to Cicogna (Inscriptions, Vol. 2 p. 330) Paolo Ramusio il giovane was born on the 4th of July 1532; this would give him 13 years A.D. 1545, when the Council of Trent commenced, and one might therefore conclude that this commentary is by him, but Cicogna states that his son Girolamo was in Spain A.D. 1581, (as confirmed by the Contarini autograph journal, date 19 to 21 August 1587), and adds that in the year 1582, on the 19th of April, he was sent as Secretary with the Lippomano into Germany, where he remained 28 months. It seems to me that in order to hoax his readers, Girolamo Ramusio may have chosen to put his commentary on his father, or possibly his father may have accompanied him both to Lisbon and Vienna in the years 1581 and 1582, in which case I should attribute it to Paolo Ramusio il giovane, who died of dropsy on the 20th of December 1600. At all events the style of certain passages more becomes a young man of seven and twenty, (Girolamo Ramusio was born on the 10th of October 1567), than an elder of half a century; and, barring the single assertion concerning his having been present at the Council of Trent, all the other details, given in the following `Report', warrant its being attributed to Girolamo Ramusio il giovane, and not to his father Paolo Ramusio il giovane, consequently not to an elder of nine and forty, but to a young man of seven and twenty."
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Europe and Russia
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