books.google.co.uk - Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623) is remembered as the defender of Venice against the Papal Interdict of 1606 and as the first, and greatest, historian of the Counter-Reformation. The sources of his undoubted hostility to clerical authority have always been a matter of controversy; many contemporaries claimed...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Paolo_Sarpi.html?id=zRTYev_etAwC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePaolo Sarpi
