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Anbieter: Hünersdorff Rare Books ABA ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Engraved portrait by L[uigi] Rados (1773-1840) after a drawing by G[iovanni] B[attista] Bosio. c1810. Plate impression: 218 x 154mm; overall size: 28.7 x 200mm. The French diplomat is shown seated at a desk in the habit of a Cardinal.
Anbieter: Hünersdorff Rare Books ABA ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Manuskript / Papierantiquität
No Binding. Zustand: Good. Bernis, François-Joachim de Pierre, Comte de, Abbé. Autograph letter in ink, signed. 2 pages, recto & verso, 8vo. Letter written to Francesco Algarotti (1712-64), poet and connaisseur of the arts and sciences, while Bernis was French ambassador in Venice (1752 - 1755) acting as mediator between the Republic and Pope Benedict XIV. Algarotti had returned to Venice from Berlin in 1753 for health reasons. ' Your village Sir is very near to mine. Could we not without wounding either politics or prudence see each other once or twice this summer, if you have no objection? I shall find the means; I shall gladly surprise you ., and bring back to my hamlet ideas and graces unknown to it. My master [the Pope] is a very good negotiator. I think that the republic could not do better either for its glory or for its interest than to refer to him. I have had no merit in this affair except that of having pointed out to [?] Madame the confidence of this government On his return to France in 1755 Bernis was made a papal councillor of state, and in 1756 he was created cardinal by Pope Clement XIII. Bernis was French foreign minister during the first phase of the Seven Years War, as a protégé of Madame de Pompadour (1757-58); he spent his final years as chargé d affaires to the Vatican (1774-94).