Author: Valsecchi, Antonio.
Title: La religion vincitrice.
Description: Opera relativa ai libri de'fondamenti della religione e dei fonti dell'empietà. Parte prima-seconda. Padova, Nella stamperia del Seminario appresso Giovanni Manfré, 1776. xx, 224; xii, 299, [i], p. Index. Engraving on title-page. Head- & tail-ornaments. 4to. 24x17 cm. 2 volumes in 1. Contemporary vellum over paper with brown morocco letterpiece on spine. Some names on free endpapers. Marbled endpapers. Nice copy. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. Antonino Valsecchi (1708-1791) was a dominican friar and professor of philosophy and theology in Padua for 33 years from 1758 until his death. He was well known in his time as an ardent adversary of all kinds of impiety. In 1765 his apologetical Dei Fondamenti della religione, e dei fonti dell'impieta was published. The Religion vincitrice forms a sequel to it as Valsecchi felt the need to refute the fundamental kind of atheism that had surfaced in 1766 with the Examen des apologistes de la religion chretien by Freret (actually d'Holbach or Lévesque de Burigny) and in 1770 with 'System de la Nature' by Mirabaud (actually by d'Holbach). All though he wrote an extensive analysis and critical appraisal of both works, we have found no reference to wheter the book was succesfull or had any effect. Text in Italian. This edition not in OCLC (lists an edition printed in Genua from the same first year of publication.)

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