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See also:PAOLO See also:PARUTA (1540-1598) , Venetian historian . After studying at See also:Padua he served the Venetian See also:republic in various See also:political capacities, including that of secretary to one of the Venetian delegates at the See also:Council of See also:Trent . In 1579 he published a See also:work entitled Della Perfezione della vita politica, and the same See also:year he was appointed See also:official historian to the republic, in See also:succession to See also:Luigi See also:Contarini . He took up the narrative from where See also:Cardinal See also:Bembo had See also:left it, in 1513, and brought it down to 1551 . He was made provveditore to the Chamber of Loans in 158o, savio del gran consiglio in 1590, and See also:governor of See also:Brescia in the following year . In 1596 he was appointed provveditore of St See also:Mark, and in 1597 See also:superintendent of fortifications . He died a year later . His See also:history, which was at first written in Latin and subsequently in See also:Italian, was not published until after his See also:deathβin 1599 . Among his other See also:works may be mentioned a history of the See also:War of See also:Cyprus (1570-72), and a number of political orations . See Apostolo See also:Zeno's edition of See also:Paruta's history (in the See also:series Degli Istorici delle cose veneziane, See also:Venice, 1718), and C . Monzani's edition of Paruta's political works (See also:Florence, 1852) . |
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