Assassins attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi.

Paolo Sarpi

Venetian Servite friar, historian, statesman and scientist (1552–1623)

Paolo Sarpi, O.S.M. was an Italian Servite friar and Catholic priest who was a notable historian, scientist, canon lawyer, polymath and statesman active on behalf of the Venetian Republic during the period of its successful defiance of the papal interdict (1605–1607) and its war…