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ANDREA MOROSINI (1558-1618)
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ANDREA MOROSINI (1558-1618) was a famous historian and was entrusted by the Venetian senate with the task of continuing Paolo Paruta's Annali Veneti, in Latin. His history of Venice was published by his brother in 1623 (Venice), and translated into Italian by Senator Girolamo Molin (Venice, 1782). Among his other works are: Le Imprese ed espeditioni di terra santa, &c. (Venice, 1627); De its quae veneta respublica ad Istriae oras gessit, &'c. (in the Corner-Duodo collection of MSS.; De forma reipublicae venetae in MS. in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. His life has been written by Luigi Lollin (1623), by Niccolo Crasso (1621), and by Antonio Palazzoli (1620).