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MANNI, Giovanni Battista, s. j.
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169
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MANNI, Giovanni Battista, s. j.
See original version (French)
Estimate €300
Voluntary lot
Description
MANNI, Giovanni Battista, s. j. - La Prigione eterna dell' Inferno, disegnata in imagini, Et espressa in essempij al peccatore duro di cuore. Venice, Giovanni Giacomo Herz, 1673. In-12, 124 pp, 27 full-page figs engraved in intaglio, front missing, marbled boards, smooth spine decorated.
SOMMERVOGEL V, 500, a copy of the 1666 Venice edition which appears to be the first. Treatise on Hell by the Italian Jesuit G. B. Manni (Modena 1606 - Bologna 1682) Rector of Modena, Parma, Mantua, Bologna and Piacenza. The text corresponds to the figures and consists of a succession of descriptions and frightening stories illustrated with frightening images of characters subjected to all kinds of torture in a Baroque style.
See original version (French)
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