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A FOUNDING TEXT ON ECCLESIASTICAL BENEFITSGIGANTI, GIROLAMO. Tractatus de...
A FOUNDING TEXT ON ECCLESIASTICAL BENEFITS
GIGANTI, GIROLAMO. Tractatus de pensionibus ecclesiasticis. Causarum patronis. Et in ecclesiastico foro versantibus ceterisque legum & canonum studiosis. ... Continens in se questiones centum elucubratum per ... D. Hieronimum Gigantem Forosemproniensem. Venetiis: impressum, mandato & expensis dominorum Francisci & Michaelis de Tramezinis, a Nicolao Bascarino, mense Maio 1542 (Venice: Tramezzino, May 1542).
4to, contemporary full limp vellum with handwritten titles on spine, ff. [24], 151, [1].
Two large-size woodcut printer’s devices, text in Roman and Italic types.
Rare first edition of a founding reference texts on ecclesiastical benefits printed in the sixteenth century.
Far from works of mere compilation, the Tractatus is characterized by a considerable moral profile, with a complete description of the abuse by the pensions’ beneficiaries and of means to control and repress them.
Girolamo Gigante, prominent canonist and writer, was born in Fossombrone, to the west of Ancona, around the end of the fifteenth century, and studied in Perugia and Bologna. From 1522 he acted as agent of the Duke of Urbino in Venice, and from 1541 he was ecclesiastical adviser to the Republic of Venice.
He was also the author of a remarkable treatise on Crimen Lesae Majestatis, which received considerable praise from a master of the Renaissance’s criminal law as Tiberio Deciani.
References: CNCE 20971. OCLC 28793653.