Giovan Battista Nani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Giovan Battista Nani

Venetian diplomat, historian and writer

Date of Birth: 30-Aug-1616

Place of Birth: Venice, Venetian Province, Italy

Date of Death: 05-Nov-1678

Profession: diplomat, historian

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Giovan Battista Nani (30 August 1616, Venice – 5 November 1678, Venice), in French Jean Baptiste Felix Gaspard Nani, was a Venetian ambassador, librarian, archivist, amateur botanist and historian, born into a patrician family.For 25 years (1643–68) Battista was the Republic of Venice's ambassador to France, as well as making several diplomatic missions into Germany.
He later became Procurator of St Mark's.
He wrote a history of the Republic of Venice in his free time, the Historia della Republica Veneta (dal 1613 al 1671), which was translated into French by François Tallemant (1679) and Masclary (1702), and continued by Michele Foscarini and Piero Garzoni.
Nani wrote about the Conspiracy of Spain against the Venetian Republic, set up by the Marquis de Bedmar.
The story was used by César Vichard de Saint-Réal in his Conjuration des Espagnols contre la République de Venise en l'année M.
DC.
XVIII, and in 1682 by Thomas Otway in playwright Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd.
Leopold von Ranke published his view on the conspiracy theory in Über die Verschwörung gegen Venedig, im Jahre 1618 (1831).