The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public…

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…

Paolo Sarpi was the great adversary of the papacy of the Counter-Reformation and an early advocate of the separation of church and state in Venice. Taking Sarpi’s homosexuality into account…