[London: John Bill, n.d., 1617.]
Rare engraving. Sheet: 275 x 185mm (10¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Marco Antonio de Dominis (1560-1624), former Archbishop of Split and Primate of Dalmatia and all Croatia, frontispiece to his ''De Republicâ Ecclesiasticâ contra Primatum Papæ''. Perhaps engraved by Renold Elstracke. Having sided with Venice in a row with the Papacy, he resigned his position and travelled to England to avoid the Inquisition. There he wrote ''De Republicâ Ecclesiasticâ'', anti-Roman sermons, two volumes of which were published in London by John Bill with under royal patronage, the first in 1617 and a second in 1620; a third was published in Hanau in 1622. In 1623 he recanted and returned to Rome, but soon he erred and was declared a relapsed heretic and was confined to the Castel Sant'Angelo where he died 1624. This is an early version of the portrait: a later version has John Bill's name on the plate, which was likely to be from the 1620 second volume of the ''De Republicâ Ecclesiasticâ''.
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