Author: TOSETTI, Urbano
Title: Compendio Storico della vita di S. Guiseppe Calasanzio della Madre di Dio fondatore delle scuole pie scritto da Urbano Tosetti di S. Paolo sacerdote dello Stess'ordine. Terza Edizione.
Description: Roma, Nella stamperia dell'ospizio apostolico, 1829. 8vo. W. woodc. vign. on printed title. Very good contemp. hlf. clf., over green and yellow decorated paper brds., corners bumped and rubb. Flat spine, simple giltruling and lettering. [*4, A - M8, N4]. (VIII, 212, I (imprimatur), I (Blank) pp. (Occasionally some light yellowing.). (loosely inserted a complimentary card w. 4 lines in ink 'Here's wishing you the pleasantest of journeys! Margaret Mallough Palmer'). Third edition 1829. Good copy. Life of the Holy Joseph Calasanz, founder of the pious Schools, at the occasion of his canonization. Joseph von Calasanz [ca 1556 - 1648] founded the first free fee-less school in Europe devoted to teaching and educating poor children. He and his fellow workers organized themselves into a group called the 'Piarist Movement' or Ordo Clericorum Regularium Pauperum Matris Dei Scholarum Piarum' : See Hofman, Lexikon f. Theologie [1936], vol. VIII, p. 261 - 262: Originally published Rome 1767.

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