"He applied himself especially to history and political science, and was at the end of the fifteenth century what Macchiavelli, though in a different way, was at the beginning."
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Umberto Benigni, Paolo Paruta (1913) Catholic Encyclopedia
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Paolo Paruta
Paolo Paruta (14 May 1540 – 6 December 1598) was a Venetian historian and statesman.
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