SONESIO, Enrico. Profetia veridica di tutti i sommi pontefici fin'al fine del mondo fatta da San Malachia arciuescouo Armacano. Venezia, Stamperia Pinelli, 1675

8vo; Binding in marbled board; 45 leaves, title page included, 1 b.; ornament on the title page, woodcut initials and ornaments, Round type.

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Osservatione notabile sopra l’elettione del nuou Pontefice Clemente X e sopra la Verificatione della Profetia di San Malachia de Flumine Magno.Venezia, Pinelli, 1670

5 leaves, title page included; ornament on the title page, woodcut intials and finals, round type.

Rare and important edition. Esoteric work which had enormous success. Around 1140, the Irish Bishop Malachia, a friend of St. Bernard, prophesied papal succession, until the time that Peter would return to the earth to take the keys of the Church. The prophecies consist in 111 Latin mottos that describe the 111 popes who would alternated on the throne of Peter from 1143 until the end of time. The book was published by the theologian Henry Sonesio, who writes the biography of St. Malachia and discuss until the motto of Clement X, pope from 1670 to 1676. The remaining mottos are then listed and the work ends with a chapter on the end of the world, which according to the author should have happened in 1947.Fine specimen.

Original edition. It is here examined carefully the prophecy concerning the election of Emilio Altieri, born in Rome, Pope from 1670 to 1676 under the name of Clement X. St. Malachia nominated him under the motto De Flumine Magno Of the great river. The author tries to prove that this expression refers to the Tiber River.