Opere Postume di Pietro Giannone in Difesa della Sua Storia Civile del Regno di Napoli con la Sua Professione di Fede.
Si Aggiungono in Questa Edizione le Annotazioni Critiche del Padre Paoli, sopra il IX libro del Tomo secondo della storia civile E la risposta Di Pietro Giannone alle Suddette Annotazioni.
(Posthumous works of Pietro Giannone in his defense of History of the Civil of the Kingdom of Naples with his Profession of Faith.) – In Italian language.
Two Volumes in one binding.
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VENEZIA (Venice), Presso Giambatista Pasquali, 1768. Vol. 1 & 2
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Pp. VII + /1/ + 360 (vol. 1) + VII + /1/ + 296 (vol. 2) Size: 26,3 x 20 cm
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Pietro Giannone was the first to deal systematically with the question of Church and State which gave rise to a lifelong conflict between Giannone and the Roman Catholic Church. In his Posthumous works, Pietro defended his most famous work Istoria Civile del Regno di Napoli which was put in Index Librorum Prohibitorum by the Roman Inquisition. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum (English: List of Prohibited Books) was a list of publications deemed heretical, anti-clerical, or lascivious, and therefore banned by the Catholic Church. The aim of the list was to protect the faith and morals of the faithful by preventing the reading of heretical and immoral books.
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Binding: Original vellum binding with gilt-stamped spine cover. Minor signs of wear.
Condition: Stamped by the previous owner on flyleaf and title page. Foxing, some of the pages browned due to paper aging, water stain on trough the text block not affecting text integrity, minor tear on pp. 67 in vol. 2.
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