Leighton Library, Dunblane

Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library founded in 1687

Leighton Library has a 1620 edition of "Historia del Concilio tridentino" by Paolo Sarpi

Added at 06:33 on 14 August 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1620 edition of "Historia del Concilio tridentino" (History of the Councel of Trent) by Venetian historian, prelate, scientist & canon lawyer Paolo Sarpi who was born #OnThisDay 14 August 1552. This was his major work. He was a proponent of the separation of Church and state, and considered a hero of republicanism and free thought

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