| Title | Chapter Ten: 1735 |
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| Subtitle | Venice, Modena, Milan, Turin, and Geneva |
| Contributor | Thérèse Ridley (translator) |
| Thérèse Ridley (contributions by) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0483.10 |
| Landing page | http://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0483/chapters/10.11647/obp.0483.10 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Thérèse Ridley |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2026-04-09 |
| Long abstract | Chapter Ten (1735). G. was now under constant surveillance by spies, especially of the Inquisition. In April his son Giovanni joined him from Naples. G. then received final rejection of his application to return to Naples, blocked by Rome. In the evening of 13 September, he was brutally arrested and expelled from Venice. In the confusion the only property taken with G. was his books, but eventually he convinced the soldier to take them back to Pisani. On the next evening G. was landed in the papal states, near Ferrara, where he was in grave danger. From here he made his way to Modena (where his son joined him, bringing his valuables) and Milano. Turin ordered him to leave this city within two days. After negotiating with Bousquet, his printer in Geneva, over the French translation of the History, G. passed through Turin, and crossed the Alps in a sedan chair, arriving in Geneva on 5 December. Again he was very warmly welcomed, especially by Jean-Alphonse Turrettini, the ‘pope of Geneva’. |
| Print length | 110 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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Therese Ridley completed her Honours degree at both the University of Melbourne and Monash University (Melbourne). She studied History (with the doyen of the Melbourne School), German, Chinese and Japanese, having studied French at high school. She acquired Italian by spending many years in Italy, accompanying her husband (a specialist in Roman History and the History of Rome) on his study leave every fourth year, and for the past twenty years spending every November in Rome, an annual research trip. She spends all her time in the Vatican Library. She is also the translator from German of Friedrich Münzer, Rӧmische Adelsparteien Adelsfamilien, a classic study, originally 1920, listed in every bibliography on Roman politics, but never subsequently referred to. This was instantly published by the oldest American University Press, Johns Hopkins, in 1999. Reviews stated that “Therese Ridley’s remarkable translation of the book and her re-editing of Münzer’s bibliography at last give the English-speaking world access to Münzer’s intellectual legacy” : Ronald Weber, History, reviews of new books 28 (2000). This translation has, in fact, now superseded the original German in references. For the past twenty years Therese Ridley has devoted herself to the life and works of Pietro Giannone, reading and translating his enormous bibliography. She has traced him the length and breadth of Italy. She is well known, of course, to the doyen of Giannone studies, Professor Giuseppe Ricuperati of Torino.
Therese Ridley completed her Honours degree at both the University of Melbourne and Monash University (Melbourne). She studied History (with the doyen of the Melbourne School), German, Chinese and Japanese, having studied French at high school. She acquired Italian by spending many years in Italy, accompanying her husband (a specialist in Roman History and the History of Rome) on his study leave every fourth year, and for the past twenty years spending every November in Rome, an annual research trip. She spends all her time in the Vatican Library. She is also the translator from German of Friedrich Münzer, Rӧmische Adelsparteien Adelsfamilien, a classic study, originally 1920, listed in every bibliography on Roman politics, but never subsequently referred to. This was instantly published by the oldest American University Press, Johns Hopkins, in 1999. Reviews stated that “Therese Ridley’s remarkable translation of the book and her re-editing of Münzer’s bibliography at last give the English-speaking world access to Münzer’s intellectual legacy” : Ronald Weber, History, reviews of new books 28 (2000). This translation has, in fact, now superseded the original German in references. For the past twenty years Therese Ridley has devoted herself to the life and works of Pietro Giannone, reading and translating his enormous bibliography. She has traced him the length and breadth of Italy. She is well known, of course, to the doyen of Giannone studies, Professor Giuseppe Ricuperati of Torino.