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Sarpi, Paolo (1552-1623) Discorso dell'Origine, Forma, Leggi, ed Uso dell'Ufficio dell'Inquisitione nella Citta, e Dominio di Venetia.
Geneva: Preso Pietro Alberto, 1639.
Quarto, bound in full contemporary parchment over boards, laced case construction, with arms of Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater (1736-1803) tooled on front board in black, 8 x 5 3/4 in.
This work is a history of the Inquisition in Venice. Sarpi occupied a controversial role in the counter-reformation, beginning as a Catholic and settling on a preference for Calvinism.
Rare at auction; Worldcat reports the existence of a variant of this edition without printing place or printer's name.
