Discorsi politici di Paolo Paruta Nobile Vinetiano

Features

Author:  Paolo Paruta

Publisher:  Domenico Nicolini

Place of printing:  Venice

Year of publication:  1599

Product Condition:
Mute parchment binding in poor condition: dirty parchment, with brown spots, undulations and lacks along the edges of the plates. Cuts with traces of dust and calligraphic title on the lower cut. Slightly burnished papers with scattered blooms and small brown spots located mainly along the edges; frontispiece burnished with blooms and two notes erased in pen on the sides of the engraved portrait; marginal woodworm holes (lower internal corner, upper external corner, upper margin) affect the entire volume in a discontinuous way: we point out in particular because in some cases it causes missing small portions of paper but without loss of text the woodworm at the upper margin of the cc from Vv3 to the end of the Discourses (Nnnn2); slight gores of humidity at the lower external corner of the cc appear with discontinuity for all the Discourses, while a gora of humidity at the lower margin occurs from B1 to B4 of the Soliloquy

Pages:  (44), 636, (2), 21, (1)

Format:  In the eighth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  22
Width:  17

Description

Rotract of the author on the title page; letterpress mark in the imprint. First posthumous edition of this work that summarizes the thought of Paolo Paruta (1540-1598), a politician and historian linked to the events of the Republic of Venice in the second half of the 16th century. Starting from a reading of Roman history and political events between the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century, the author outlines his vision of the forms of government that privileges the golden mediocritas of the Venetian Republic as optimal: precisely its status as a 'mediocre' state allows Venice to ensure social peace within its perimeter, as well as, with an authority far exceeding its specific and relative weight, to assume an important role of mediation between the large states protagonists of European politics. At the end of the Discourses, the Soliloquy also appears in the first edition, an opportunity to take stock of his work as a politician and diplomat.

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