Copia D Una Lettera Del R P Gio Argenta Della Compagnia Di Giesu Al Molto Rever D Claudio Aquaviva

by Giovanni Argenti

$11,500 · Offered by Martayan Lan

First edition

Very rare first edition of Argenti’s detailed eyewitness account of the religious turmoil resulting in the destruction in 1603 of the Jesuit College in Claudiopolis, Transylvania (modern-day Cluj-Napoca, Romania) by hostile Protestant forces. A manuscript of this letter is housed at the Biblioteca Vacelliana in Rome. In the present letter..... More

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