Ragionamenti intorno al tribunale della inquisizione, nei quali metodicamente si dimostra con quanta ragione gli onorati cittadini napoletani si siano sempre opposti à tentativi degli ecclesiastici d'introdurre nella cittá, a regno [di Napoli] il detto tribunale.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Capasso, Nicolò, 1671-1745.

Contributor:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Inquisition--Italy--Naples (Kingdom).

Inquisition.

Italy.

Naples (Kingdom).

Naples (Kingdom)--History.

History.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea, 1875.

Bequest of Henry Charles Lea, 1909.

Physical Description:

149 leaves : paper ; 264 x 184 (217 x 132) mm bound to 270 x 200 mm

Place of Publication:

[Naples], [1711-1799]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

A defense of citizen opposition to the introduction of the inquisition in the Kingdom of Naples. Dedicated to the deputies of Naples, the work argues that justice is the province of the state, not the church, and that ecclesiastical crimes threaten the state as well as the church, so that while the church should determine what conduct is heretical, the state should punish it. Copy is incomplete near the end of the work.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from caption title (f. 2r). Attribution to Niccoló Capasso is written in pencil next to title.

Foliation: Paper, i (later paper) + 149 + i (later paper); [1-149]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Binding: Half parchment.

Origin: Written in Naples after 1711 (f. 5r).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 181 (Ms. Lea 164).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 588

OCLC:

155966988