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CLXVII Deposizione di Lunardo Michelini (Venezia, 23 febbraio 1616).
A. B. Hinds, Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts, cit., v. xiv, 1908, p. 604.
Il documento è tradotto in inglese da Hinds nel Calendar con le indicazioni topico-archivistiche veneziane (ASV., Inquisitori di Stato, Busta 155).
Lunardo Michelini was examined in the presence of the Ambassador Barbarico. He denied the story about Foscarini and the archbishop. Foscarini had not been more than twice to see the archbishop without him.
Upon the matter of the apostates, the archbishop had sent to Foscarini to complain that his chaplain meddled with outside affairs; this was upon the occasion of his converting the two apostates. Thereupon the ambassador directed the chaplain to go and give satisfaction to the bishop, advising him to speak respectfully. When the archbishop complained that these apostates had taken refuge in Foscarini’s house, the ambassador asked the priest and others if this were true. Lorenzo Peroe said he did not know. Foscarini cried out ‘Rascal, tell me the truth or I will strangle you’.
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