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1616716111616. Crimes of Heresy-And Their Punishment Farinacci Prospero 1554-1618. Tractatus de Haeresi. In Quo per Quaestiones Regulas Ampliationes & Limitationes. Quid a Iure Civili & Canonico. Quid a Sacris Conciliis Summorumque Pontificum Constitutionibus Statutum. Quid Verius & Magis Communiter in hac Materia Receptum Sit. Et Quid Demum in Practica Servetur Solito Authoris Ordine Explicatur. Cum Argumentis Summariis Et Indice Locupletissimo. Rome: Ex Typographia Andreae Phei 1616. xx 686 2 240 pp. Folio 13-1/2" x 9-1/2". Contemporary vellum with early rebacking raised bands and early hand-lettered title and shelf number to spine. Light rubbing to boards heavier rubbing to extremities with a few small chips to edges and considerable wear to corners boards slightly bowed joints starting at ends rear pastedown detached and edgeworn some edgewear to leaves at beginning and end of text block. Title page printed in red and black within copperplate architectural border. Moderate toning somewhat heavier in places occasional faint dampstaining light foxing and minor worming in places faint vertical crease through title page. $2500. First edition as an independent work. This work on questions of heresy in civil and canon law appears to have drawn great interest since editions appeared the same year in Antwerp Frankfurt and Douai. It also helped as Schulte notes that the author's "reputation as a criminalist was enormous." Farinacci begins by defining the act of heresy. He then proceeds to examine where it can be found and how it should be investigated. As indicated by several examples of schismatics Farinacci was motivated in part by the Counter-Reformation. He also addresses heretical books pp. 81-99 practitioners of magic witches on those who invoke and consorting with demons pp. 99-155 and the apostasy of clerics. There is much on the power of the inquisition and the role the inquisitor in the investigation of charges of heresy the use of excommunication and methods for investigating guilt which has a detailed section on the use of torture pp. 287-297. Schulte Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des Canonischen Rechts III:1 462. unknown books
16206296Small 4to. Florence: Pietro Cecconcelli 1620. Small 4to xiv 162 ii pp. With an etched title-page and five double-page etched plates by Jacques Callot. Strictly contemporary limp vellum backstrip titled in manuscript some wear and soiling to binding and an inoffensive waterstain in the lower margin from a2-D2 but an entirely unsophisticated copy with superb strikes of the plates. § First edition of this important tragedy produced in 1619 and published many times in the 17th century. The illustrations are regarded as some of Callot’s finest work. “French etcher engraver and draughtsman. He was one of the most accomplished printmakers in the Western tradition and one of the major exponents of the Mannerist style in the early 17th century. His often fantastic compositions combine grotesque and elegant elements in a compelling and personal manner.†Grove Dictionary of Art. Callot based his illustrations on the work of his colleague Parigi architect and chief designer of courtly festivities under the Grand Duke Cosimo Medici II who died two years later causing Callot to return to his native Nancy. Gamba 1810. Cicognara 1086. Lieure 363-368. The book is quite scarce especially in unsophisticated condition and with such fine impressions of the plates. The Schaeffer copy for example 1994 lot 38 had the plates on stubs was cut down slightly and rebound in recent red morocco. Of the six copies at auction since 1975 only one was in contemporary vellum 1978. Pietro Cecconcelli hardcover books
