Adams Papers Digital Edition

Papers of John Adams, volume 20

From Samuel Tucker

To Mercy Otis Warren
474 Thomas Brand Hollis to John Adams, 12 February 1791 Hollis, Thomas Brand Adams, John
From Thomas Brand Hollis
Feb 12. 1791.

Mr Brand Hollis having met with this second volume of the History of Bologna by Ghiradacci requests Mr Adams to accept of it from gratitude to him for having produced to the publick the act of the 3 of June 1257 by which all the Slaves & villains were manumitted.1 The book containing it is intitled The Paradise of pleasure.

1605. Ghirardacci lib VI. p. 194 con Licenza de Superiori.

There has been 3. Edit of this 2 vol book. 1657. Edit. 3d.

RC (Adams Papers).

 1.

Cherubino Ghirardacci, Della Historia di Bologna, 2 vols., Bologna, Italy, 1605, two copies of which are in JA’s library at MB with significant annotations. Approximately 5,855 serfs of Bologna were freed on 3 June 1257; the Liber Paradisus lists the names of the emancipated and their former masters ( Catalogue of JA’s Library ; Christopher Kleinhenz, ed., Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia, 2 vols., N.Y., 2004, entry on Bologna).