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Demonologia - Bonelli, Benedetto
Critical aversions regarding the nocturnal congress of the lammies, in the form of a letter addressed to a man of letters. We add P. Gaar's speech on the witch of Erbipoli, his response to the notes, the information on the witch of Salzburg and the historical compendium of witchcraft., 1751
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In Venice, with Simone Occhi, 1751. In 4°, pp. 188. Woodcut vignette on the title page, slight foxing, restoration on the title page. Contemporary binding in full parchment.
Specialist Notes
In 1749, in Erbipoli, today's Wurzburg, Maria Renata Saenger was beheaded and burned at the stake; not far away, in Salzburg, the same fate befell a poor girl: both had been found guilty of witchcraft. In those years, a "diabolical controversy" was raging in Italy in which the Enlightenment abbot Girolamo Tartarotti openly fought the witch trials. Benedetto Bonelli (1704-1783), author of the volume and rigid defender of religious traditions, strenuously defended the existence of witchcraft and the fairness of trials against women. Bonelli's arguments are based above all on the fact that there are laws against witches which take into account a long Catholic tradition which admitted the possibility of trade between women and the devil, later reaffirmed by Benedict XIV and D. Concina.
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