8vo. 2 parts in one vol. 204 + 72ff. Woodcut devices on title-pages, brown stain in fore-corners of a few leaves in part 1, in contemporary limp vellum, spine a little darkened.
first edition of this learned dissertation by Lodovico Carbone da Costacciaro, professor of theology at the Ginnasio of Perugia, full of references to civil and canon law and dedicated to one of the most vexed questions of the sixteenth and sevebteenth centuries, the controversies about honour and the duel, here hugely amplified with the questions of enemy and friend, love and hate, war and peace, and with the role of pacificator, or arbitrator, in the resolution of conflicts. The author maintains, however, the that the duel is never permissible on the basis of divine, civil and ecclesiastical law except, curiously, an exiled criminal may be slain outside of his own country. The second part is concerned with the relationships between brothers, and between them and their parents, on the discords which might arise between them and on the role of the arbitrator. Red library stamp of the Collegium Antonianum on title-page.
Censimento CNCE 9370; Levi-Gelli, Bibliografia del duello, p.118; not in Adams or BMC; OCLC locates the copies at the Universities of Chicago, Harvard and Pennsylvania and the Folger Library
GBP 650.00
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