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See also:PAOLO (See also:GIROLAMO GASPARE)5 (1532-1600) was the only See also:child of Gian Battista, and was See also:born on the 4th of See also:July 1532 . Like his See also:father, he maintained a large See also:correspondence with many persons of learning and See also:note . In 1541 See also:Francesco See also:Contarini, See also:procurator of St See also:Mark's, brought from See also:Brussels a MS. of See also:Villehardouin's See also:History of the See also:Conquest of See also:Constantinople, which he presented to the See also:Council of Ten . In 1556 they publicly ordered its See also:translation into Latin, and gave the See also:commission to See also:Paolo Rannusio . His father also seems to have taken much See also:interest in the See also:work, for a MS. See also:vernacular translation by him exists in the Marciana . Paolo's See also:book was not completed 2 See also:Brunet's statements on the subject are borrowed, and not quite accurate . The detail in Cigogna seems to be accurate, but it is vague as to the deficiencies of the earlier See also:editions . 3 All of these are in the See also:British Museum . 4 All at the British Museum . 5 This See also:person and his son affected the spelling Rannusio . till 1573, many years after the father's See also:death, and was in fact a See also:paraphrase enlarged from other See also:sources, thus, according to Cigogna's questionable See also:judgment, " converting the dry See also:story of Villehardouin into an elegant (fiorita) See also:historical work." It was not published till 'See also:bog, nine years after Paolo's death; nor was it ever really reprinted, though it became the subject of a singular and unintelligible See also:forgery . |
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