Venetian diplomacy at the sublime porte during the sixteenth century. The index librorum prohibitorum and the censorship of the Venetian press. A Venetian printer-publisher in the sixteenth century. Cardinal Contarini and his friends. The marriage of Ibraim Pasha. An international episode. Shakespeare and Venice. Marcantonio Bragadin, a sixteenth-century Cagliostro. Paula Sarpi, the man. The Spanish conspiracy: an episode in the decline of Venice. Cromwell and the venetian republic