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PARUTA, PAOLO (1540-1598) , Venetian historian. After studying at Padua he served the Venetian republic in various political capacities, including that of secretary to one of the Venetian delegates at the Council of Trent. In 1579 he published a work
Contarini
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Bembo
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 deathin 1599. Among his other works may be mentioned a history of the War of Cyprus (1570-72), and a number of political orations.See Apostolo Zeno's edition of Paruta
series Degli Istorici delle cose veneziane, Venice, 1718), and C. Monzani's edition of Paruta
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