1682 by Thomas Otway in playwright Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd. Leopold von Ranke published his view on the conspiracy in Über die Verschwörung gegen Venedig, im Jahre 1618 (1831). Nani left in manuscript a paraphrase on Lucan's Pharsalia, and Considerations on the Annals of Tacitus. Works Notes Sources External links 1616 births 1678 deaths 17th-century Venetian writers 17th-century diplomats 17th-century Italian historians Historians of Italy Ambassadors of the Republic of Venice to France Procurators of Saint Mark