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DONATO (Nicolo). L'Homme d'Etat; work translated from Italian into French, with a great number of considerable additions, extracted from the most famous authors who wrote on the political matters. Liège, Clément Plomteux, 1767. 2 vols. in-4, viij-450 pp. ; [2] ff. 258 pp. in marbled fawn calf, spine with ornamented nerves, title and greefs, red pages (contemporary binding). Covers restored. A good copy. First French translation, by Jean-Baptiste-René Robinet, of L'Uomo di governo, which first appeared at the Verona address, in 1753. Nicolo Donato (1705-1765), diplomat and political theorist, should not be confused with his namesake, the 93rd Doge of Venice (who died on May 5, 1618 after one month in office). His text has known few editions, and the main interest of the French version lies in the important apparatus of notes drawn in particular from Montesquieu, with which the translator, Robinet (1735-1820), one of the continuators of the Encyclopaedia, enriched it (Cioranescu, XVIII, 53 582.)
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DONATO (Nicolo). L'Homme d'Etat; work translated from Italian into French, with a great number of considerable additions, extracted from the most famous authors who wrote on the political matters. Liège, Clément Plomteux, 1767. 2 vols. in-4, viij-450 pp. ; [2] ff. 258 pp. in marbled fawn calf, spine with ornamented nerves, title and greefs, red pages (contemporary binding). Covers restored. A good copy. First French translation, by Jean-Baptiste-René Robinet, of L'Uomo di governo, which first appeared at the Verona address, in 1753. Nicolo Donato (1705-1765), diplomat and political theorist, should not be confused with his namesake, the 93rd Doge of Venice (who died on May 5, 1618 after one month in office). His text has known few editions, and the main interest of the French version lies in the important apparatus of notes drawn in particular from Montesquieu, with which the translator, Robinet (1735-1820), one of the continuators of the Encyclopaedia, enriched it (Cioranescu, XVIII, 53 582.)
