Cappelari, M. [Pope Gregory XVI]
Il trionfo della santa sede e della chiesa: Contro gli assalti dei novatori combattuti e respinti colle stesse loro armi.
Venezia, 1832. Folio (47.5 x 33.5 cm). First blank with handwritten inscription "Esemplare N.20 settanta. Per la Santità di Nostro Signore Papa Gregorio XVI Giuseppe Battagiia Editore"; second blank sheet; engraved title page with engraved vignette by Besato and Viviani, frontispiece engraved portrait of Pope Gregorio XVI (tissue-guarded), tissue-guarded engraving between the introduction and discorso preliminare (Jezus and his disciples "Tu es Petrus et super hanc Petrm aedificabo ecclesiam meam", by Rizzardini and Viviani; xxvii, 326, [i] pp. Loose-leaved in original lithographed cardboard box (51.5 x 37.5 x 5.6 cm). = A seldom-seen work on the infallability of the pope. The title translates into: The triumph of the Holy See and the Church: against the assault of the innovators, fought and repulsed with their own weapons. Pope Gregorius (Gregory) XVI, born Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari (1765-1846) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 2 February 1831 to his death in 1846. He had adopted the name Mauro upon entering the religious order of the Camaldolese. Strongly conservative and traditionalist, he opposed democratic and modernising reforms in the Papal States and throughout Europe, seeing them as fronts for revolutionary leftism. Against these trends, Gregory XVI sought to strengthen the religious and political authority of the papacy. In the encyclical Mirari vos, he pronounced it 'false and absurd, or rather mad, that we must secure and guarantee to each one liberty of conscience.' He encouraged missionary activity abroad and condemned the slave trade. However, his harsh repression, financial extravagance and neglectfulness left him deeply unpopular domestically."(Wikipedia). Uncut. One of a limited edition of 220 copies, this being number 20. Most copies are in theological libraries. To see a copy without library stamps, and in a fine state, such as this one, is highly unusual.
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