SARPI (Paolo).
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The History of the Council of Trent containing eight books. In which besides the Ordinary Acts of the Council are declared many notable occurences, which happened in Christendom, during the space of forty years and more. And particularly the Practices of the Court of Rome, to hinder the Reformation of their Errours, and to maintain their creatness. Translated into English by Sr Nathanael Brent. Whereunto is added the Life of the Learned author and the History of Inquisition. London, Printed by J. Macock, for Samuel Mearne, John Martyn and Henry Herringman, 1676, petit in-folio, [16]-CVI-[2]-889-[1 blanche-[48] p., plein veau brun de l'époque, dos à 6 nerfs, pièce de titre (petit manque), tranches jaspées, ex-libris "Cheshunt College Library" et cachet d'annulation (coiffes et coins usés, petit manque de papier en tête de la p. 613 sans manque). Wing S-696. Paolo Sarpi was an influential Venetian scholar and church reformer. After Pope Paul V excommunicated Venice and its possessions, Sarpi's strong arguments against the Papal position made him the target of a Papal sponsored assassination (1607). Sarpi's later work, Istoria del Concilio Tridentino (History of the Council of Trent), was an important critical work of the Catholic Church's reformation, especially the role of the curia. His history was widely read by Protestants, including John Milton, who called Sarpi "the great unmasker" (Peter Burke, The great unmasker: Paolo Sarpi, 1551-1613, in History Today, 15, 1965, p. 430).
