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To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 12 February 1791

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 description begins Catalogue of the John Adams Library in the Public Library of the City of Boston, Boston, 1917. description ends ; Christopher Kleinhenz, ed., Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia, 2 vols., N.Y., 2004, entry on Bologna).

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    To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 12 February 1791
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    “To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 12 February 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-20-02-0291. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 20, June 1789–February 1791, ed. Sara Georgini, Sara Martin, R. M. Barlow, Gwen Fries, Amanda M. Norton, Neal E. Millikan, and Hobson Woodward. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020, p. 474.]

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