Prospero

1792 · ref. TNESBENE97 — Venice: Silvestri Gatti 1792. 1792. 2 Volumes in 1. 4to. pp. xvi 196; viii 304. with half-title in Vol. II. text in double columns. woodcut headpieces initials & title vignettes. contemporary half vellumn rubbed. Later edition of one of the Pope’s principal writings. "Great as a man a scholar an administrator and a priest Benedict’s claim to immortality rests principally on his admirable ecclesiastical writings" of which this is one Catholic Encyc. First published in 1741 following his elevation to the Papacy it is an adaptation to diocesan administration of the general ecclesiastical law. Because of its influence this book is called by Schulte "one of the most important if not the most important modern work in canon law." Idem. Venice: Silvestri Gatti, 1792. hardcover