Descrizione

Un volumetto in 16mo (9x14,5 cm) di 211 pagine; in barbe. Insistenti fioriture (foxing). Brossura cartacea editoriale con titolo alla copertina, in cornice tipografica, mancanze al dorso ai due estremi e agli angoli anteriori. Alla data della prima edizione (nel 1838 ne vennero pubblicate, anche dallo stesso Pagnerre, varie edizioni, di cui è impossibile stabilire la priorità. Questa viene definita quindi “one of the issues of the first edition”). --”By his desire to strengthen the pope's authority and thus give greater unity to the church, he was one of the first and most uncompromising of ultramontanes. By his desire to separate church and state and to ally church with liberalism, he was one of the first liberal Catholics. By his concern for the working classes, he was an early proponent of social Catholicism. Each of these was destined to be a major trend in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries”.