MODENE, Leon de (Rabin de Venise)Biblio.com
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Sententia dell' Eccelso Conseglio di Diece. Contra Anzolo Badoer cavalier.Sententie vanden Hoogen Raedt van de Thiene. Teghens Anzolo Badoer ridder.
161278CAPB8HI9JLThe Hague 1612. 4to. Hillebrant Jacobsz. van Wouw Sewn without supports in later plain paper wrapper formerly side stitched through 3 holes. With a woodcut vignette face with 2 cornucopias on title-page 2 woodcut decorated initials 2 series both arabesque. With the Italian text in italic the Dutch text in textura and with incidental roman. 15 1 blank pp. First bilingual Italian and Dutch edition of a sentence pronounced by the government of the Venetian Republic the Consiglio dei Dieci or Council of Ten on 21 April 1612 declaring Anzolo Badoer in absentia a traitor stripping him of his knighthood confiscating his property banishing him from the city and the Republic's territories and sentencing him to be hanged in the original Italian with a parallel Dutch translation. It also offers a reward for his capture dead or alive 4000 ducats if captured in the Republic and 6000 ducats if captured abroad. Anzolo or Angelo Badoer 1565- 1630 was the eldest son of Alberto Badoer 1540-1592 who had served as Venetian ambassador to Spain the Holy Roman Empire and Rome until his premature death. Anzolo succeeded to his father's knighthood and followed him into diplomatic service as Venetian ambassador to France from 1602 until he came into conflict with the Council of Ten in 1607.With a large "9" on the title-page in red pencil. In very good condition. An important document of dramatic intrigues here published with a Dutch translation.l Knuttel 1938a; STCN 5 copies; cf. ICCU: PUVE019213 1612 Venice ed. in Italian only; for Badoer: Diz. Biogr. Italiani 5 1963 on www.treccani.it. unknown
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