100 books : The collection of a Gentleman

Petrus de Natalibus. Catalogus sanctorum ex diversis ac doctis voluminibus congestus: a reuerendissimo in Christo patre domino Petro de natalibus de venetijs: dei gratia episcopo Equilino: ac iam denuo accurate reuisus. [Strasbourg, Johann Knobloch], 1521



Folio, (32 x 22 cm), ff. [4], contemporary blindtooled pigsking binding, brass clasps, ff. CCXXXVI [i.e. 219], [1] , signature a-d8 e-i6 k8 l-r6 s-z8 A-B8 C-H6 I8, ff. [pi greco]4 e I8 are blank, title page printed in red and black



Handclolored title page.



Rare early edition of the influential legends of the saints, first published in Vicenza in 1493.



"A very valuable work with a wide circulation. In his arrangement of the various lives he follows the calendar of the Church. The collection [...] went through many editions, the last of which (the eighth) appeared in Venice, 1616" (Cath. Encyclopedia, s.v.).



Some marks of use, but a good copy in original binding.

SCARCE SECOND EDITION, SUPERSEDING THE FIRST INCOMPLETE PARMA VERSION, OF THIS POEM BY VITTORIA COLONNA

Colonna, Vittoria. Rime della divina Vettoria Colonna marchesana di Pescara, di nuovo ristampate, aggiuntovi le sue stanze, e con diligenza corrette. [...], 1539.

8vo (144x94 mm), half vellum binding, with contemporary decorated paper at boards, unbound leaves; [48] leaves
Dedication at leaf A2r to Alessandro Vercelli from Filippo Pirogallo.
Italic type.

Provenance: Handwritten ownership inscription at last page ("Questo libro è di fra ...").

References: IT\ICCU\UBOE\103982 (9 copies). OCLC, 13929675. Brunet II, 161.

RARE FIRST EDITION ; GIOVANNI ARGENTERIO , A SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MEDICAL INNOVATOR

ARGENTERIO, GIOVANNI. Ioannis Argenterii Castellonouensis ... De consultationibus medicis siue (vt vulgus vocat) de collegiandi ratione liber. Florentiae : cudebat Laurentius Torrentinus ducalis typographus, 1551.
8vo (170 x 110) XVIII century half calf binding, pp. 190, [2, errata, last page blank], signature a-m⁸, Medici coat of arms at title page.

THE FIERCE OPPOSER TO GALEN AND HIS MEDICAL THEORY

Rare First Edition of Argenterio’s treatise on consultation or collegiality in medicine, where Argenterio dismissed the study of the elements “secundum naturam”, as theorized by Galen.

The book was printed by Lorenzo Torrentino, printer that held the ducal monopoly of printing in Florence for several years, publishing only works approved by ducal authority; printing major literary, scientifical and historical works he represented an important instrument for cultural diffusion across Italy.

While discussing the importance of consultation between colleagues, debating about real cases, Argenterio attacks Galen theories: he argues that, when doing a consultation, the physician does not need to explain the natural temperament of the patient, as Galen prescribed, since often elements that are “praeter naturam” can be easily found out without recurring to those “secundum naturam”.

Book structure

•Title page
•Dedicatory letters
•Chapter 1: De hutilitate huius tractationis
•Chapter 2: Quibus constet consultandi ratio
•Chapter 3: De quibus disserendum sit in consultationibus
•Chapter 4: De quibus disserendum sit quum ponitur finis consultationis cognition
•Chapter 5: De quibus disserendum sit quum de actione aliqua consultamus
•Chapter 6: Quo ordine singula sint digerenda
•Chapter 7: De morbo quae dicenda
•Chapter 8: De symptomatis quid dicere oporteat
•Chapter 9: De Causis quae dicenda
•Chapter 10: De signis et praedictionequid dicere oporteat
•Chapter 11: De ratione agendi
•Chapter 11: De probandi, pronunciandique ration ein cinsultationibus

GIOVANNI ARGENTERIO (Castelnuovo d'Asti, 1513 – Turin, 1572) was an Italian physician and author of countless works on medicine.
He was a professor at the Medical Universities of Pisa, Naples, Turin and Mondovì. He became famous for his medical work "De Morbis", published in 1548, De consultationibus medicis, in 1551 and In artem medicinalem Galeni commentarii tres in1553.


ALESSANDRO MASSARIA first ordinary professor of practical medicine at the University of Padua during an oration at university mentioned and detailed the three main contemporary schools of thought in medicine:
•the adherents of the Greeks, and especially of Galen, among whom Massaria counted himself.
•the adherents of the Arabs, especially Avicenna.
•a third group, those who "are drawn to none of the ancients but in a remarkable way to some more recent doctrine.", and as main representant of this third group of innovators he quoted GIOVANNI AGENTERIO, probably the strongest contemporary critic of Galen.


After his death, Argenterio's ideas continued to play a part in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century endeavours to enlarge or replace Galenic explanations of disease.

The most important criticism raised by Argenterio, is addressed to the physiology of the three spirits (natural, vital and animal) and to their hierarchical localization in the liver, heart and brain.
The weakness not only of the Galenic theory, but also of valid empirical confirmations, pushed the Piedmontese doctor to prefer a conception more directly inspired by Aristotle, whose biological works were increasingly spreading from the beginning of the sixteenth century. He then replaced the three Galenic spirits with a single vital spirit constituted by the “innate heat” residing in the blood.

He then criticized the physiology of the four elementary qualities (hot, cold, dry and humid), qualities that traditionally explained the multiple empirical properties of the organism by their various combinations.

According to Argenterio, the four humors (blood, white bile, black bile, phlegm), still played an important role, with the prevalence of blood, responsible of the spreading of the spirit or vital heat throughout the organism.

Furthermore, blood is no longer produced by the liver but directly by the veins and the vital spirit flowing through them, directs and conditions the various body functions and moods.


Another significant difference from Galen’s theory is related to the action of medicines, no longer considered as carriers of elementary qualities mixing with the organism, but as principles not related to the organism itself, that will react with it on a principle of antipathy or sympathy.


CONDITIONS: light waterstain at the top margin of few internal leaves; in general a very good copy of a rare treatise.


PROVENANCE: faded ownership signature at title page.

Important Boccaccio Glossary

Alunno, Francesco. Le ricchezze della lingua volgare sopra il Boccaccio, di M. Francesco Alunno da Ferrara. Di nuouo ristampate, ricorrette et ampliate dallo istesso autore, con le dechiarationi, regole, osseruationi, & aggiontoui le Cadenze o uero Desinenze di tutte le uoci del detto Boccaccio, , e del Petrarca, per ordine di Alphabeto, col Decamerone secondo l'originale, e ristampato dall'Accademia Fiorentina, e segnato co i numeri corrispondenti all'opera con privilegio di diversi prencipi. In Vinegia : per Paulo Gherardo (at colophon per Comin da Trino), 1557.

4to, contemporary limp vellum, ff. 395, [1], Signature: A-3C⁸ 3D⁴, Author portrait at title page, with xylographic border.


Important Boccacco glossary, it contains the complete glossary of the Decameron, with the terms and phrases used by Boccaccio and reference where to find them in the work. Gamba defines it as a “beautiful, rather correct edition”, published at the same time of the Decameron published in the same year.



Conditions: Ownership notes erased at title page, traces of glue of old labels to cover the notes.

Provenance: Ex Libris Guelfo-Sitta and Dolce cagion di oblio nella vita Affannosa di Francesco Cucchiari pasted at front inside board.

Rare Parisian Edition

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Il Corbaccio. In Parigi : per Federigo Morello, 1569.

8°, limp vellum, pp. [16], 122, [6], 127-173, [1], The name of the author is taken from the incipit at f. A1r.
Contains the notes taken by Jacopo Corbinelli from the 1384 apograph manuscript by Francesco D'Amaretto Mannelli, on which Corbinelli himself conducted the edition, cfr its dedication to Vincenzo Magalotti.



Corbaccio is the most famous of the works composed by Giovanni Boccaccio after the publication of his masterpiece, the Decameron, probably dating back to 1365, after Boccaccio chose to live in retreat in Certaldo. Corbaccio is written in vulgar prose, and the most evident innovation of the work emerges in the presentation of love and the female figure



Corbaccio, disappointed by the rejection of a widow he was in love with, falls asleep and finds himself among the souls of those who in life have succumbed to the illusion of love, which are presented in the form of fairs. Corbaccio's "guide", not very Virgilian, is the soul of the widow's husband who, in exchange for the promise of the celebration of masses in his honor and the transcription of what he will reveal to him, tells Corbaccio all the defects, moral and physical, of the woman.

Scalvo, Bartolomeo. Rosariae preces ad gloriosam Dei genitricem Mariam Virginem meditationibus auctae ad vitae Christi eiusdemq. matris repetendam memoriam. A Bartholomaeo Scaluo Cremonen. Elucubratae. Mediolani : Pacificus Pontius impr, 1569 mense Martij (Mediolani : excudebat Pacificus Pontius, 1569 mense Martij)



RARE Devotional book for the veneration of Virgin Mary



4to, pp.[12], 131, [5], woodcut border composed of 9 small woodcuts on title-page, each page printed within a woodcut border, woodcut decoration (some composed of printer's ornaments), large woodcut on f. 5, 6v. F3 and M2. At f.2 headletter with the city of Cremona.

INTERESTING AND CURIOUS SOCIOLOGICAL TREATISE ON WOMEN'S DEFECTS, A SORT OF MANUAL OF MISOGYNY, WRITTEN BY GIUSEPPE PASSI

Passi, Giuseppe. I donneschi difetti di Giuseppe Passi rauennate nell'illustrissima Academia de signori Riccourati di Padoua, & informi di Rauenna l'Ardito. Aggiunntoui in questa quarta impressione per compimento di essi molte cose curiose, che ne gl'altri mancauano, degne d'esser lette, da chi disegna schiuare gl'inganni delle femmine. Con tre tauole; la prima de i capi contenuti nell'opera; la seconda degl'auttori; la terza delle cose notabili. In Venezia: appresso Vincenzo Somascho, 1618.

4to (190x136 mm), full vellum binding, handwritten title at spine; pp. [24], 380.
Xyl. printer's device at title-page.
Xyl. historated initials and head-pieces.

The first edition of this curious work came out in Milan in 1599 and was reprinted in Venice in the same year, revised and corrected; it was put on the Index in 1623 [Michel VI, 85; Index Librorum prohibitorum, 1895, 303].

Dedicated to the Prince of Urbino, Federico Feltre Dalla Rovere, it deals with the superb women, stingy, intemperate, lascivious, libidinous etc., as stated in the Tavola de' Capi.

Provenance: Handwritten ownership inscription at title-page (Jacobi Philippi Cherubini).

References: IT\ICCU\RMRE\001594. OCLC, 38612417.

First Edition


Villani, Nicola. L' vccellatura di Vincenzo Foresi all'occhiale del caualiere fra Tomaso Stigliani contro l'Adone del caualier Gio. Battista Marini e alla difesa di Girolamo Aleandro.
In Venetia: appresso Antonio Pinelli, 1630.


12mo, contemporary limp vellum, handwritten title at spine, pp. 483, [1].


First edition of the work by the poet and literary critic Nicola Villani (1590-1636) in which he intervened in the controversy on Marino's Adone caused by the poet Tommaso Stigliani with his work Il mondo Nuovo

Bentivoglio, Guido. Della guerra di Fiandra, descritta dal cardinal Bentiuoglio parte prima (- terza). Venezia : Giunti e Baba, 1645. Venezia, Giunti e Baba, 1645

3 parts in on volume 4to, contemporary half calf, engraved frontispiece.

The History of Flanders

Bentivoglio, Guido. Historia della guerra di Fiandra descritta dal cardinal Bentiuoglio Parte prima [-terza].
In Venetia : appresso Gio. Battista Indrich, 1678


4to, three volumes bound in one, contemporary stiff vellum, gilt title on leather label aat spine, pp. [4], 195, [13], 127, [5], 177, [7], title printed at frontispiece, Historia di Fiandra del cardinal Bentiuoglio, xylographic headletters and decorations.


Interesting Venetian edition of the famous Bentivoglio historical opera


Guido Bentivoglio d'Aragona (1577 - 1644) was a cardinal, archbishop and Italian historian.

He was ambassador in Flanders under Pope Paul V and then in Paris. When he returned to Rome, he became a cardinal with the title of cardinal presbyter of San Giovanni a Porta Latina directed the Holy Inquisition during the trial of Galileo.


In his writings on his experiences, he showed a great interest in political issues, presented in a more conceptual and moderate style, so that his work can be considered a work halfway between historiography and the political-diplomatic treaty.


Fine copy

First Edition


Wright, John Michael. Ragguaglio della solenne comparsa, fatta in Roma gli otto di Gennaio MDCLXXXVII. dall'Illustrissimo, et Eccellentissimo Signor Conte di Castelmaine, Ambasciatore Straordinario della Sagra Maesta di Giacomo Secondo Re d'Inghilterra, Scozia, Francia, et Ibernia, difensore della fede alla Santa Sede Apostolica, in andare publicamente all'udienza della santita di nostro Signore Papa Innocenzo Undecimo. / Dedicato all'Altezza Serenissima . della Duchessa di Modena da Giovanni Michele Writ maggiordomo del medesimo ambasciatore . Roma : nella Stamperia di Domenico Antonio Ercole, [1687].

Folio, full leather binding, inside a preservation box, pp. 92, 15 plates.


Sumptuous Festival book relating to the reception in the Vatican in 1687 of the British ambassador Castelmaine, accompanied by the painter J.M. Wright, author of the present work. The folded table, over a meter long, illustrates the setting up of the banquet in a frescoed room.


All engravings signed by A. Westerhout, G.B. Lenardi, P.M. Camers, C. Ferri, A. Cornely.

[First and only Edition]

Giannettasio Niccolo Partenio. Universalis cosmographiae elementa exposita & demonstrata a viris nobilibus In Colleg. Neapolitano S. Jesu, praeside Nic. Parthenio Giannettasio. Neapoli, ex officina typ. Jacobi Raillard, 1688

12mo, contemporary stiff vellum, pp. [10], 512

Rare edition of the Geographic work of the Italian Jesuit, poet and scholar Niccolo' Giannettasio, dedicated to teaching geography.

Very rare edition, only 9 copies mapped in Worldwide libraries

[First Edition]

L'Art de plumer la poule sans crier . Cologne, Robert le Turc 1710

12mo, contemporary half calf in red Morocco, on handcoloured paper.



Collection of 21 satirical stories, mostly concerning money and women.

Second edition


Baruffaldi , Girolamo. Rime scelte de' poeti ferraresi antichi, e moderni, Aggiuntevi nel fine alcune brevi notizie istoriche intorno ad essi.
Ferrara, eredi di Bernardino Pomatelli, 1713.


8vo, contemporary roan ralf, (worn), gilt title on red leather label at spine, pp. [36], 608. Edited by Girolamo Baruffaldi, conte Grassini, and Giuseppe Lanzon , printer device at title page.


First edition of this work that is apparently an anthology of Ferrarese poets of the Renaissance, but which turned out to be only a product of the irreverent fantasy of Baruffaldi, and one of the products of its counterfeit workshop.


Binding worn, some marks of use, generally a good copy


References: Melzi, G. Anonime e pseudonime, II, p. 449

First Edition

Casotti, Giovanni Battista. Memorie istoriche della miracolosa immagine di Maria Vergine dell'Impruneta raccolte da Giovambatista Casotti lettore d'Istoria sacra e profana nello Studio di Firenze. In Firenze : appresso Giuseppe Manni all'inseg. di S. Gio. di Dio, 1714 (In Firenze nella Via del Garbo : da Giuseppe Manni all'insegna di S. Giovanni di Dio, 1714).

4to, full vellum binding, 2 pt. (XV, [1], 318, [2], 231, [1]; 57, [3] p.). calcographic illustraton at title page of part 1.

2 full page plates, 10 folding plates by Cosimo Mogalli on a drawing by Alessandro Saller.



Important treatise, from a religious and artistic point of view, for the history of the sanctuary of Santa Maria dell'Impruneta containing "many documents and information on the history of Florence with the notes of Manni ..." (Brunet)

Among the large tables, of exquisite workmanship and suggestion, we remember those, folded several times, which illustrate the famous procession for the Virgin Mary.


The sanctuary of Santa Maria dell'Impruneta is located in the municipality of Impruneta in the province of Florence.

The Madonna dell'Impruneta, although not remembered for particular miracles, is at the center of a heartfelt and very devoted popular cult, so much so as to make the church one of the most important , and probably the oldest in Tuscany, among the Marian Sanctuaries of Italy.



References: Gamba, 2190; Graesse II, 61

RARE

Paoli, Sebastiano. Funerali per l'illustriss. ed eccellentiss. signora D. Giovanna Pignatelli d'Aragona, duchessa di Monteleone e di Terranova. Coll'orazione detta da Sebastiano Pauli ... nella chiesa della Solitaria nella citta di Napoli . In Napoli : nella stamperia di Felice Mosca, 1723

4to, contemporary vellum, pp. [24], 39, [1].



One engraving by Francesco de Grado based on a drawng by Paolo Salvietti



Provenance: Ex libris Principe Diego Pigantelli di Cavaniglia.

Missale Romanum ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum, s. Pii 5. pontificis maximi jussu editum, Clementis 8. & Urbani 8. auctoritate recognitum ; in quo missae novissime sanctorum accurate sunt dispositae.
Venetiis : ex typographia Balleoniana, 1726.

Folio, full leather binding with gild decorations at boards and spine. Gilt cross with monogram MD at board center, original clasps, pp. [28], 432, LXXXVII, [3], xylographic headletters and decorations, engraving at title page signed my Sister Isabella Piccini. Printed in red and black.

Illustration along the text signed by Sister Isabella Piccini (PF).

Nice and Rare Roman Church missal, with engraving by sister Isabella Piccini

Isabella Piccini (born Elisabetta Piccini) was an Italian artist and nun.
She worked on etching, engraving, and illustration. Piccini was born in Venice in 1644. Her father was etcher and engraver Guglielmo Piccini. He trained Piccini in engraving and illustration in the style of the great masters such as Peter Paul Rubens and Titian. Piccini became a Franciscan nun in 1666, joining the Convent of Santa Croce. Upon joining, she changed her name to Sister Isabella.

Prominent Italians commissioned works from her, including portraits and religious artworks. Giovanni Antonio Remondini distributed her prints throughout Europe.All income she made was split between her convent and her family.

THE HISTORY OF ANCIENT ROMAN EMPIRE
IN A ROYAL BINDING WITH GILT COAT OF ARMS OF HABSBURG-HUNGARY ROYAL FAMILY

NIEUPOORT, GUILLAME HENRI. Historia reipublicae et imperii Romanorum ab urbe condita ad annum urbis 727 quo Octaviano Caesari summa imperii cum nomine Augusti delata fuit. Contexuit ex monumentis veterum G. H. Nieupoort. Tomus primus [-2.]. Venetiis: typis Josephi Bettinelli, 1732.

2 volumes in 8vo (166x102 mm), attractive contemporary blind-tooled full calf binding with gilt coat of arms on both covers, blind-tooled floral borders, spine with six raised bands with geometrical blind-toolings, other floral rhomboidal blindtoolings at compartments containings small crowns, pp. [1, blank], [1, frontispiece[, [1, title-page], [1, blank], [58], 472 for the first volume; pp. 592 for the second volume.

Nice Venetian edition of Nieupoort's Historia Reipublicae et Imperii Romanorum («History of Roman Republic and Empire») in a precious binding. A classic text of Roman history, from the foundation until the year 728.

WILLELM HENDRIK NIEUPOORT (1670-about 1730), also known with the Latin name NEOPORTUS, was a Dutch lawyer and historian. He was professor of Ancient History at University of Utrecht. His major works, Rituum romanorum explicatio (1712) and the present Historia reipublicae et imperii Romanorum (1723) became in Europe the classic reference books for the history of the period.

PROVENANCE: Gilt coat of arms of the Habsburg family on both covers.

REFERENCES: IT\ICCU\TO0E\016442. Not in Brunet or Graesse.

Officium B. Mariae Virginis S. Pii V. Pontificis Maximi jussu editum, et Urbani VIII. Venetiis : Ex typographia Balleoniana, 1740


4to, richly decorated full calf contemporary binding, boards with central gilt cartouche inside a ruler with floral decoration at corners, pp. XXXI, 494, inside boards in green paper, full page engravings, engraved headletters.


Nice copy of a rare edition of Officium, with an amazing contemporary binding.


Only one copy in Italian public library, Biblioteca parrocchiale di Romano di Lombardia - Romano di Lombardia - BG

First Edition

Buonamici, Castruccio. Castruccii Bonamici commentariorum De Bello Italico Liber 1 [Liber 2]. Lugduni Batavorum : [s.n.], 1750.


2 vols 8vo, contemporary richly decorated decorated vellum binding, pp. XX,128, XIX, 122, Liber 1, Signature: b6,A-Q4. Liber 2 Signature: a-b4 A-P4.

First Edition of this history of Italy, of classical inspiration, during the war of succession of Austria (1740-1748) which mainly interested Piedmont and Liguria. It was commissioned to Bonamici by the Republic of Genoa.

Due to the hostility to the Savoy that transpired from the work and the grim portrait of Carlo Emanuele III, the Government of the Republic of Genoa decided to publish it with the false place of printing of Leiden.

Second Edition

Dobel, Heinrich Wilhelm. Neueroffnete Jager-Practica, Oder der wohlgeubte und Erfahrne Jager, Darinnen eine vollständige Anweisung zur gantzen Hohen und Niedern Jagd-Wissenschaft in Vier Theilen (...) mit vielen Kupfern und Grund-Rissen. Johann Samuel Heins sel. Erben, Leipzig, 1754

4 parts in 1 volume, full contemporary leather, ff. 16, 148, 264, 184, 108, ff. 32.



21 copper plates

Second augmented edition of the renowned treatise on hunting published in 1746.

It describes hunting prays, hunting dogs, hunting equipment, traps, etc.

Pius VI. Cedola di moto proprio della Santita di nostro Signore Pio Papa Sesto Pontefice Massimo con cui si aumentano le entrate, e si prescrivono nuovi regolamenti, e privilegi per la pontificia Universita di Ferrara e si assegnano nuove rendite all'Ospedale S. Anna, ed al Luogo pio de' Proietti. In Roma : nella Stamperia della Sagra Congregazione di Propaganda Fide, 1778.


4to, contemporary colored paper board, LVI, Title page in red and black, second title page on opposite page in Latin. Signature: [A]⁴, B-G⁴.



With 11 engraved vignettes along the text.

In Catholic canon law the Cedola di moto proprio it refers to a document issued by the pope on his own initiative and personally signed by him. Such a document may be addressed to the whole Church, to part of it, or to some individuals.

A document issued motu proprio has its legal effect even if the reasons given for its issuance are found to be false or fraudulent, a fact which would normally render the document invalid. Its validity is based on its issuance by the pope by his own initiative, not upon the reasons alleged.

In the present case the Pope issued new rules for the Papal University of Ferrara.

Barotti. Vescovi di Ferrara, 1781Barotti, Lorenzo. Serie de' vescovi ed arcivescovi di Ferrara del signor abbate Lorenzo Barotti dedicata all'eminentissimo e reverendissimo signore il signor card. Bernardino Giraud prouditore del regnante sommo pontefice . Ferrara, 1781.


4to, contemporary paper binding, paper label with title at spine, pp. [8], 159, [1], headpieces with the dedicatee coat of arms and a landscape, signature A-X4 , leaf B2 wrongly marked C2.

Untrimmed


Ex libris Guelfo Sitta

RENOWNED POUGET'S CATHECHISM, 2 VOLUMES

Pouget, Francois Aime. Institutiones catholicae in modum catecheseos, in quibus quidquid ad religionis historiam & ecclesiae, dogmata, mores, sacramenta ... totum id brevi compendio ex sacris fontibus Scripturae & traditionis explanatur. Ex gallico idiomate in latinum sermonem translate; ... Auctore oedem et interprete Francisco-Amato Pouget ... Tomus primus -secundus. Venice, Balleoni, 1782.

2 thick folio volumes, hald calf, red edges, pp. XX, 716 and pp. IV, 680. Red and black title-page.

Fine Venetian edition of renowned Pouget's Cathechism, a perfect syntesis between Christian though and simplicity.

Francois Aime Pouget (born 1666) was a French theologian, from Montpellier. Almost immediately after his ordination he was appointed vicar of Saint-Roche at Paris, and it was in this capacity that he administered the last sacraments to La Fontaine. He was made doctor, and entered in 1696 the Congregation of the Oratory. Colbert, bishop of Montpellier, gave him the direction of his seminary. He returned to Paris, and held at the Seminary of Saint Magloire public lectures on the conscience. He was appointed member of the commission charged with the liturgical reform of the diocese of Paris. The Catechisme de Montpellier, the principal work of Pouget, was published at Paris in 1702; it was at once adopted in all parts of France, has gone through many editions, and has been translated into several languages. At the time of his death Pouget was publishing a Latin edition of it, in which the passages merely indicated in the French work were extensively filled out. This edition, when in the printing office, was seized at the request of cardinal de Bissy, and was published after examination by doctor Clavel, with his comments. The work was completed by the P. Desmolets, and published under the title of Institutiones Catholicae(1725).

There are few works of this kind in which the Christian dogmas, the religious morals, the sacraments, prayers, ceremonies, and customs of the Church are set forth with greater distinctness and simplicity.

References: IT\ICCU\RMLE\025930. OCLC, 797694524.