De Ricci Scipione - Lettere pastorali - 1783

DE RICCI Scipione, bishop of Pistoia and Prato, Pastoral Letters... Volume One, in Florence, at Anton Giuseppe Pagani, 1783, only vol. 1, pp. VI, 257, [1], copper-engraved vignette on the title-page with the coat of arms of De Ricci, unbound. Contains fundamental texts of Italian Jansenism, not long before the Jansenist Synod of Pistoia. From page 202, the pastoral instruction in the Josephinist sense (imitated in Tuscany) of the Archbishop of Salzburg Girolamo di Colloredo is important.

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