Making Italy Anglican
Making Italy Anglican

Author: Stefano Villani

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0197587739

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"The first Italian translation of the Book of Common Prayer was made in 1608 by William Bedell (the chaplain to James I's ambassador in Venice) with the help of Fulgenzio Micanzio and Paolo Sarpi. This translation was part of an English propaganda plan to instigate a schism in the Church of Venice, at a time of conflict between the court of Rome and the Venetian Republic. This chapter reconstructs the relationships between Sarpi and Micanzio and the English embassy in Venice. As far as we know, Bedell's translation remained a manuscript with no known copies extant"--

Minor Historical Writings and Other Essays
Minor Historical Writings and Other Essays

Author: Henry Charles Lea

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1512803618

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.