Paolo Paruta (1540 –1598), Venetian historian. Events January 6 - King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves, his fourth Queen consort. ... Events January 7 - Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia following the death of his brother-in-law, Tsar Feodor I April 13 - Edict of Nantes - Henry IV of France grants French Huguenots equal rights with Catholics. ...

After studying at Padua he served the Republic_of_Venice in various political capacities, including that of secretary to one of the Venetian delegates at the Council of Ten. In 1579 he published a work entitled Della Perfezione della vita politica, and the same year he was appointed official historian to the republic, in succession to Luigi Contarini. He took up the narrative from where Cardinal Bembo had left it, in 1513, and brought it down to 1551. He was made provveditore to the Chamber of Loans in 1580, savio del gran consiglio in 1590, and governor of Brescia in the following year. In 1596 he was appointed provveditore of St Mark, and in 1597 superintendent of fortifications. He died a year later. His history, which was at first written in Latin and subsequently in Italian, was not published until after his death in 1599. Among his other works may be mentioned a history of the War of Cyprus (1570-72), and a number of political orations. The Most Serene Republic of Venice was a city-state in Venetia in Northeastern Italy, based around the city of Venice. ... The Council of Ten, or simply the Ten, was, from 1310 to 1797, one of the major governing bodies of the Republic of Venice. ... Pietro Bembo (May 20, 1470 - 18 January 1547), Italian cardinal and scholar. ...

See Apostolo Zenos edition of ~Parutas history (in the series Degli Istorici delle cose veneziane, Venice, 1718), and C. Monzanis edition of Parutas political works (Florence, 1852)

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