LO STATO DE CORPI BEATI NELL'EMPIREO : SPIEGATO IN DICIOTTO LETTIONI DETTE NEL TEMPO PASCALE NELLA CHIEFA DI SANTI APOSTOLI DI NAPOLI
Naples, Italy: Per Camillo Cauallo, 1654. Hardcover. Octavo, 8.4 in. x 6 in., pp. [12], 295, [9] (index). Text in Italian; sermon titles in Latin. Illustrated with several woodcuts. Full vellum, front hinge cracking with chips to spine. Title faded from spine. Wrinkles and worming to boards and endpapers. Double column text. A few slight stains on isolated pages. Previous owner's name to half title. Some discreet , aged pen and pencils marks in some margins. Good Minus. Item #80295
The title translates: "The State of the Blessed Bodies in the Empyrean: Explained ni Eighteen Lectures given during Easter in the Church of the Holy Apostles in Naples". "Empyrean" can refer to a literal, highest heaven of fire or light in cosmology, or to an ideal state or firmament.
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