Sir Henry Wotton a Biographical Sketch
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, which is stated to have formerly been in the library of Lord Edward Conway. Of Wotton's projected History of Venice nothing is extant, and probably nothing was written, save the Latin dedication to King James, which "Ottavio Baldi " transmitted to him with a letter dated Decem- ber gth, 1622, and a short epistolary fragment on the " Original " (origin) of Venice. Of superior interest is his account of the election of the Doge Niccolo Donato in 1618, and the short notice of the election in the... same year of his successor, Antonio Priuli. The former narrative comprises some noteworthy particulars as to the procedure followed on such occa- sions, of which Wotton had repeatedly been an ob- server. " The election of the Duke of Venice, " he writes, " is one of the most intricate and curious forms in the world. . . . Whereupon occurreth a pretty question, What need there was of such a deal of solici- tude in choosing a Prince of such limited authority ? " 54 A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH The absorbing question of the earlier years of Sir Henry Wotton's first embassy to Venice was the celebrated conflict be- tween the Republic and the Papacy, in which the chief combatants were Pope Paul V.
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, which is stated to have formerly been in the library of Lord Edward Conway. Of Wotton's projected History of Venice nothing is extant, and probably nothing was written, save the Latin dedication to King James, which "Ottavio Baldi " transmitted to him with a letter dated Decem- ber gth, 1622, and a short epistolary fragment on the " Original " (origin) of Venice. Of superior interest is his account of the election of the Doge Niccolo Donato in 1618, and the short notice of the election in the... same year of his successor, Antonio Priuli. The former narrative comprises some noteworthy particulars as to the procedure followed on such occa- sions, of which Wotton had repeatedly been an ob- server. " The election of the Duke of Venice, " he writes, " is one of the most intricate and curious forms in the world. . . . Whereupon occurreth a pretty question, What need there was of such a deal of solici- tude in choosing a Prince of such limited authority ? " 54 A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH The absorbing question of the earlier years of Sir Henry Wotton's first embassy to Venice was the celebrated conflict be- tween the Republic and the Papacy, in which the chief combatants were Pope Paul V.
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