Gio. Battista Campadelli - Discorsi sacri sopra varie feste, divozioni ed altre materie morali - 1783

Gio. Battista Campadelli – Sacred Discourses on Various Feasts, Devotions, and Other Moral Matters – Naples, 1783

Interesting eighteenth-century work of preaching and religious literature, published in Naples in 1783, at the press of Gaetano Castellano, with the blessing of the superiors.
The title page bears the inscription “Edizione novissima” and specifies that the work is intended mainly for use by parish priests of Villa.
The volume collects discourses on sacred and moral subjects, dedicated to religious festivities, devotions, and Christian teachings. Among the themes addressed are Christmas, the Virgin Mary, faith, charity, and other topics of Catholic preaching.
The work constitutes a testimony of religious culture and pastoral activity in southern Italy in the eighteenth century.

Bibliographic characteristics

Author: Gio. Battista Campadelli

Title: Sacred Discourses on Various Feasts, Devotions, and Other Moral Matters

Edition: Novissima

Place: Naples

Printer: Gaetano Castellano

Year: 1783

Language: Italian

Number of volumes: 1

Binding: Old parchment with handwritten title on the spine

Special features
Frontispiece adorned with an elaborate typographic frieze. Inside, decorative initials and illuminated capital letters can be observed. An index of the most notable things is present in the final pages.

State of conservation
- Copy in fair condition, consistent with age. The parchment binding shows yellowing, stains, abrasions, and signs of wear. A visible cut to the rear board is particularly noted. The internal pages are generally readable, with browning, occasional stains, handling marks, and some small defects at the margins. The completeness of the quires has not been verified by bibliographic collation.

Collecting interest
- A volume of interest to collectors of old books, seventeenth/eighteenth-century religious works, the history of preaching and Neapolitan printing.

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