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Scanaroli, Giovanni Battista

De visitatione carceratorum libri tres, 1655

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Rome, Reverend Camera Apostolica, 1655. In 2 °. Occhietto, woodcut coat of arms of the Archconfraternity of the Pietà dei Carcerati among the SS. Pietro e Paolo, initials and woodcut friezes, full-page plate, detached title page, A6 tear without loss at the white margin, water gore at the outer margin, small spots, some burnished fascicles, small stain of red ink at the white outer margin it concerns the cut from PP2 to DDD2, tear at the upper corner of S4, coeval binding in half parchment with author and manuscript title on the spine and on the lower cut, various abrasions on the plates, some woodworm holes, gap in the spine. Handwritten signature of belonging to the first card. § Together in the lot De Sarno, Agnello . Nouissima criminalis praxis, et ciuilis, criminalis , Naples, Egidio Longo, 1672. Only the third part Greco, Orazio The fiscal physician, or true Compendium, and succinct treatise, in which those necessary materials to know, for the exact recognition of crimes in general , Naples, Egidio Longo, 1671. In 2 °. Brand on the title page, 4 xylographic plates, light halos, small tear on the inner margin of G2 and G3, modern binding in marbled cardboard


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First edition. Important work on the penitentiary system in which Scanaroli raises the question of the inhuman conditions of prisoners by strongly condemning torture, defined as a cruel legacy of paganism, which must be progressively replaced with methodologies aimed at the correction and recovery of the prisoners. & Nbsp;

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