Abstract
Abstract To prepare himself for a high post in the world of scholarship, Bianchini worked up universal history and chronology from the records of all nations and reduced them to a single volume and two decks of playing cards. The single volume covers the first 32 centuries of human history and the cards offer mnemonic illustrations, drawn by Bianchini, of developments from Creation to the year 1600 AD. The chapter also discusses Innocent XI’s wars against the Ottoman Empire, which set a major theme in the politics of the Ottoboni faction, and the early career of one of its members, Bianchini’s friend Giovanni Francesco Albani, who became Pope Clement XI. The main subject of the chapter, however, is Bianchini’s tour de force in writing his universal history with little explicit reliance on Scripture.
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