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Paolo Sarpi (14 August 1552 – 15 January 1623) was a Venetian historian, prelate, scientist, canon lawyer, polymath and statesman active on behalf of the Venetian Republic during the period of its successful defiance of the papal interdict (1605–1607) and its war (1615–1617) with Austria over the Uskok pirates.
Paolo Sarpi was an Italian patriot, scholar, and state theologian during Venice’s struggle with Pope Paul V. Between 1610 and 1618 he wrote his History of the Council of Trent, an important work decrying papal absolutism.
Paolo Sarpi, nato Pietro Sarpi (Venezia, 14 agosto 1552 – Venezia, 15 gennaio 1623), è stato un teologo, storico e scienziato italiano cittadino della Repubblica di Venezia, appartenente all'Ordine dei Servi di Maria.
The Great Unmasker: Paolo Sarpi, 1552-1623 Described by Bossuet as “a Protestant in friar's clothing,” Sarpi was an historian who saw that religion might be a cloak for political designs and, as Peter Burke describes, organised his historical writings around this point.
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Jun 11, 2018 · SARPI, PAOLO (PIETRO) (1552 – 1623), Italian theologian, scientist, and historian. Paolo Sarpi became notorious as the defender of Venice against the papacy during the Venetian Interdict of 1606 and as the author of a controversial history of the Council of Trent.
Paolo Sarpi, (born Aug. 14, 1552, Venice—died Jan. 14, 1623, Venice), Italian patriot, scholar, and state theologian. At age 20 Sarpi became court theologian to the duke of Mantua, a post that gave him leisure to study Greek, Hebrew, mathematics, anatomy, and botany.
Paolo Sarpi. Home > Biography Index >. Entered the Servite order in 1565 and assumed the name of Fra' Paolo. In 1579, Sarpi obtained a degree from the University of Padua and then lived mainly in Venice, with frequent visits to Rome on business for the Order.
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Oct 28, 2022 · With The History of the Council of Trent, published in London in 1619, the Venetian Paolo Sarpi established himself as both the greatest Italian historian in the seventeenth century and the most formidable adversary of the Counter-Reformation in Italy. His life...
Paolo Sarpi was a Venetian historian, prelate, scientist, canon lawyer, polymath and statesman active on behalf of the Venetian Republic during the period of its successful defiance of the papal interdict (1605–1607) and its war (1615–1617) with Austria over the Uskok pirates.
Jan 14, 2021 · Paolo Sarpi is probably one of the most eminent forgotten figures in the history of philosophy. Today, he is usually remembered only as the author of the Istoria del Concilio tridentino, and as ...
