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Wednesday 18 November 2020, 10:30 AM • Rome

208 Inquisizione

Guazzini, Sebastiano

Tractatus ad defensam inquisitorum, carceratorum, reorum, & condemnatorum super quocumque crime, 1614

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Rome, Andrea Fei, 1614. In 4th. 2 vols. Coat of arms on the frontispiece, initials and woodcut friezes, reinforcement at the outer margin of the frontispiece, small gap at C1, slight reddening, some slightly burnished papers, light water gore, rigid parchment binding with author, title and tome number imprinted in gold within a gusset on the back, mottled cuts, small links. Ex libris manuscript on the title page. § Together in the lot Franchina, Antonino. Short report of the Court of SS. Inquisition of Sicily. Of the time of its institution and news of the favors and privileges that the monarchs have granted it , Palermo, Antonino Epiro, 1744. In 2 °. Drop caps and woodcut friezes, rare halos, some pencil annotations, coeval rigid parchment binding, smooth spine, some stains. § Together in the lot Rategno, Bernardo. Lucerna inquisitorum haereticae prauitatis [...]. Venice, Marcantonio Zaltieri, 1596.

Specialist Notes

First edition of the treaty written by the Umbrian jurist Sebastiano Guazzini (1559-1615) which provides one of the most complete descriptions of the possibilities of setting up defensive lines in procedural matters by proposing thirty-nine quaestiones divided into numerous defensiones .