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Pilati, Carlo Antonio

Of a Reform of Italy or the means of reform, 1767

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Information

Villafranca [Coira], [Printing Company], 1767. In the 8th. Frieze on the title page, Rare small spots, slight water gore on a few papers, halo at the outer margin of the last issues, tear with loss at the outer white margin of paper P1, cardboard binding decorated with title within a paper insert on the spine. Handwritten annotation on the counterplate. § Together in the lot Practical way of knowing the true religion so as not to be deceived in the various modern opinions , Poschiavo, Giuseppe Ambrosioni, 1784. In 8 °.

Specialist Notes

I Opera: First edition. In this work Pilati condemned the Italian malpractice ascribing it to the consequence of the Counter-Reformation. For this he was condemned by the Inquisition and was therefore forced to wander around Europe.