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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Mazzei Filippo Mazzei] (1730-1816) was born in Tuscany to a tradesman. He studied medicine in Florence and took his first trip to England in 1756 as a ship’s doctor. He remained in London for the next sixteen years and then moved to America to pursue a viticulture enterprise. Mazzei arrived in Virginia in 1773 and purchased property near Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Mazzei cultivated relationships with Jefferson and other prominent Virginians and was appointed in 1779 as Virginia’s agent in Europe by Governor Patrick Henry. Upon his return to Virginia, Mazzei moved his estate to Richmond where he organized the Constitutional Society, a group of pamphleteers meant to promote liberty by publishing papers on public policy.<ref>Stanley J. Idzerda, [http://www.anb.org/articles/03/03-00595.html “Mazzei, Philip”] in ''American National Biography Online'' (American Council of Learned Societies, Feb 2000- ), accessed 2 Nov 2013.</ref>   
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Mazzei Filippo Mazzei] (1730-1816) was born in Tuscany to a tradesman. He studied medicine in Florence and took his first trip to England in 1756 as a ship’s doctor. He remained in London for the next sixteen years and then moved to America to pursue a viticulture enterprise. Mazzei arrived in Virginia in 1773 and purchased property near Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Mazzei cultivated relationships with Jefferson and other prominent Virginians and was appointed in 1779 as Virginia’s agent in Europe by Governor Patrick Henry. Upon his return to Virginia, Mazzei moved his estate to Richmond where he organized the Constitutional Society, a group of pamphleteers meant to promote liberty by publishing papers on public policy.<ref>Stanley J. Idzerda, [http://www.anb.org/articles/03/03-00595.html “Mazzei, Philip”] in ''American National Biography Online'' (American Council of Learned Societies, Feb 2000- ), accessed 2 Nov 2013.</ref>   
  
 
Mazzei sought a position in the American government but was denied because he was not a citizen. He permanently returned to Europe in 1785 and assisted Jefferson with his post as minister in Paris. Mazzei published various works throughout his lifetime in Virginian newspapers and Italian journals. He signed them, "Philip Mazzei, Citizen of the United States of America."<ref>Ibid.</ref> Thomas Jefferson was especially influenced by Mazzei’s works and is known to have used an excerpt from one of Mazzei’s articles in his own writing.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Mazzei reviewed a rough draft of the [[Declaration of Independence]]<ref>''Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia'', s.v. [http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/philip-mazzei “Mazzei, Philip”], accessed November 2, 2013.</ref> and is credited with the phrase, “all mean are created equal.”<ref>http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-103hjres175eh/pdf/BILLS-103hjres175eh.pdf H.R.J. Res. 175], 103d Cong. (1994), 2.</ref> Mazzei’s contributions to the American cause were first officially recognized in 1980 when the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp entitled, "Philip Mazzei, Patriot Remembered.”<ref>''U.S. Stamp Gallery, s.v. [http://www.usstampgallery.com/view.php?id=5842d61e7d7b7bcb645c0c16b0dbe3c62b457ba0 "Philip Mazzei"], accessed November 2, 2013.</ref>  
 
Mazzei sought a position in the American government but was denied because he was not a citizen. He permanently returned to Europe in 1785 and assisted Jefferson with his post as minister in Paris. Mazzei published various works throughout his lifetime in Virginian newspapers and Italian journals. He signed them, "Philip Mazzei, Citizen of the United States of America."<ref>Ibid.</ref> Thomas Jefferson was especially influenced by Mazzei’s works and is known to have used an excerpt from one of Mazzei’s articles in his own writing.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Mazzei reviewed a rough draft of the [[Declaration of Independence]]<ref>''Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia'', s.v. [http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/philip-mazzei “Mazzei, Philip”], accessed November 2, 2013.</ref> and is credited with the phrase, “all mean are created equal.”<ref>http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-103hjres175eh/pdf/BILLS-103hjres175eh.pdf H.R.J. Res. 175], 103d Cong. (1994), 2.</ref> Mazzei’s contributions to the American cause were first officially recognized in 1980 when the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp entitled, "Philip Mazzei, Patriot Remembered.”<ref>''U.S. Stamp Gallery, s.v. [http://www.usstampgallery.com/view.php?id=5842d61e7d7b7bcb645c0c16b0dbe3c62b457ba0 "Philip Mazzei"], accessed November 2, 2013.</ref>  

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by Filippo Mazzei

Recherches Historiques Et Politiques Sur Les États-Unis De l'Amérique Septentrionale: Où L'on Traite Des Établissemens Des Treize Colonies, De Leurs Rapports & De Leurs Dissentions Avec La Grande-Bretagne, De Leurs Gouvernemens Avant & Après La Révolution, &c.
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Filippo Mazzei (1730-1816) was born in Tuscany to a tradesman. He studied medicine in Florence and took his first trip to England in 1756 as a ship’s doctor. He remained in London for the next sixteen years and then moved to America to pursue a viticulture enterprise. Mazzei arrived in Virginia in 1773 and purchased property near Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Mazzei cultivated relationships with Jefferson and other prominent Virginians and was appointed in 1779 as Virginia’s agent in Europe by Governor Patrick Henry. Upon his return to Virginia, Mazzei moved his estate to Richmond where he organized the Constitutional Society, a group of pamphleteers meant to promote liberty by publishing papers on public policy.[1]

Mazzei sought a position in the American government but was denied because he was not a citizen. He permanently returned to Europe in 1785 and assisted Jefferson with his post as minister in Paris. Mazzei published various works throughout his lifetime in Virginian newspapers and Italian journals. He signed them, "Philip Mazzei, Citizen of the United States of America."[2] Thomas Jefferson was especially influenced by Mazzei’s works and is known to have used an excerpt from one of Mazzei’s articles in his own writing.[3] Mazzei reviewed a rough draft of the Declaration of Independence[4] and is credited with the phrase, “all mean are created equal.”[5] Mazzei’s contributions to the American cause were first officially recognized in 1980 when the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp entitled, "Philip Mazzei, Patriot Remembered.”[6]

In 1788, while in Paris, Mazzei published the four-volume work Recherches Historiques et Politiques sur les États-Unis to promote the American cause. In this work, Mazzei outlines the history of the American colonies, the causes of the revolution, and the economy and government of the United States. Also discussed are Indians, slavery, emigration, and the Society of the Cincinatti. Dumas Malone characterized the set as "probably the most reliable of all the works of the period on the United States.[7]

Bibliographic Information

Author: Filippo Mazzei

Title: Recherches Historiques Et Politiques Sur Les États-Unis De l'Amérique Septentrionale: Où L'on Traite Des Établissemens Des Treize Colonies, De Leurs Rapports & De Leurs Dissentions Avec La Grande-Bretagne, De Leurs Gouvernemens Avant & Après La Révolution, &c.

Publication Info: A Colle et se trouve a Paris: Chez Froullé, libraire ..., 1788.

Edition: First

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as Etats Unis de Mazzei. 4.v. in 3. 8vo. and given by Thomas Jefferson to his son-in-law Thomas Mann Randolph. Both the Brown Bibliography[8] and George Wythe's Library[9] on LibraryThing list this title as the one intended by Jefferson's entry.

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in original plum boards and neatly rebacked in calf. Purchased from G.S. MacManus Co.

View this book in William & Mary's online catalog.

External Links

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References

  1. Stanley J. Idzerda, “Mazzei, Philip” in American National Biography Online (American Council of Learned Societies, Feb 2000- ), accessed 2 Nov 2013.
  2. Ibid.
  3. Ibid.
  4. Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia, s.v. “Mazzei, Philip”, accessed November 2, 2013.
  5. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-103hjres175eh/pdf/BILLS-103hjres175eh.pdf H.R.J. Res. 175], 103d Cong. (1994), 2.
  6. U.S. Stamp Gallery, s.v. "Philip Mazzei", accessed November 2, 2013.
  7. Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time, vol. 2, Jefferson and the Rights of Man (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951), 109.
  8. Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.
  9. LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on April 21, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe