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Author: ADML
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Company: EUCS

The Thesoro Politico (1589) between history and politics

The Thesoro Politico is a book published in Paris in 1589, in Italian. It contains ambassadorial reports, instructions to cardinals and ambassadors, discourses on different subjects. Many editions were printed of that book (which was also translated in French an Latin). I n 1605 the Thesoro was put on the Index. The purpose of my research is to put the text in a more defined political and intellectual context and to investigate the circulation of the Thesoro Politico in the XVII century. The Thesoro had indeed a wide circulation. Many copies are shelved in British libraries. Sometimes it has been possible to trace the owner of the copy. This is the case of the copy shelved in the National Library of Scotland, which belonged to Thomas Hamilton, secretary to James I.