Details

Subjects:

Inquisition -- Italy -- Naples (Kingdom).
Inquisition.
Italy.
Naples (Kingdom).
Naples (Kingdom) -- History.
History.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

A defense of Pietro Giannone's Dell'istoria civile del regno di Napoli, published in 1723, which had been proscribed by the Holy Office, apparently in large measure for its treatment of popular devotions as "superstitions." The author seems to have presented himself unsolicited before the Inquisition with this apology for the work. The end of the book contains other documents of his defense, including his abjuration Caetes 1734-1738.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. i).
Pagination: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 229 + i (contemporary paper); [ii], 1-223, 225-411, 411-451, [ii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corner.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary parchment.
Origin: Written in Naples, circa 1750.
Notes in pencil on front endleaf are in the hand of Henry Charles Lea.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Henry C. Lea, 1871 (bookplate, inside upper cover; signature, flyleaf i recto).
Bequest of Henry C. Lea, 1909.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 182 (Ms. Lea 168).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 592

Contributor:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.

OCLC:

155967116