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Naples, Niccolò Naso, 1723. In 4th. 4 vols. Frontispieces in red and black ink with woodcut frieze, beautiful copper plate engraved by the dedicatee Charles VI, head, initials and friezes engraved in wood, slightly burnished copy with some more intense browning, scattered blooms and redness, slight halo at the white margin exterior of the first fascicles of tome IV, numerous annotations of ancient hand, missing the last white papers of tomes I, II, parchment binding with author, title and tome imprinted in gold within a gusset on the smooth spine, slight discoloration, some light spots and scratches
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Giannone (Ischitella di Napoli, 1676-1748) published his main work after twenty years of work. Different and conflicting interpretations on the facts contained in the text (Giannone, advocate of the lay state, illustrates the ecclesiastical arbitrators with great effectiveness, and leads the criticism of papal institutions with rare skill) meant that many copies of the first edition, the present, were destroyed, forcing the author to leave the Kingdom quickly, where he was excommunicated, while the book was put on the Index. & nbsp;