A RARE AND UNIQUE COLLECTION OF VARIOUS WRITINGS, AND DOCUMENTS ON THE AFFAIRS OF THE JESUIT FATHERS, INCLUDING THE TRIAL, CONDEMNATION AND EXECUTION OF THE JESUIT GABRIEL MALAGRIDA, AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE ALLEGED JESUIT PLOT TO ASSASSINATE THE KING OF PORTUGAL

Jesuits. [1.]: Raccolta di varie scritture, e documenti sugli affari presenti dei PP. Gesuiti. [Venezia]: in Lugano: A spese di Giuseppe Bettinelli di Venezia, 1761.

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[2.]: Sunto del processo, e sentenzia del S. Officio contra il Gesuita Gabriele Malagrida colla sentenz della Camera di Supplicazione, e colla relazione del di lui supplicio. Tradotta par la prima volta dal Portoghese. Lisboa: Antonio Rodriguez Galhardo, 1761.

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[3.]: Parisot, Pierre. Relazione della condanna, ed esecuzione del gesuita Gabriele Malagrida dall'abate Platel scritta ad un vescovo di Francia tradotta dal francese in italiano. Lisbona: nella stamperia di Michele Rodriguez stampatore patriarcale [i.e. Lugano: Agnelli], 1761.

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[4.]: Parisot, Pierre. Lettre de m. l'abbe Platel, ci devant le p. Norbert, a un eveque de France, au sujet de l'execution de Gabriel Malagrida, jesuite, par sentences des tribunaux de l'inquisition & de la supplication. A Lisbone, le 20 & 21 de septembre 1761. [Lisbona, after 1761].

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[5.]: Tribunal (Lisbona). Copia autentica della sentenza, e processo emanati dal Tribunale di Giustizia stabilito da su maesta fedelissima contra i congiurati, che commisero l'assassinio contra la Real sua persona nelle notte de' 3 Settembre 1758. Fedelmente tradotta dalla portoghese nella italiana favella. Lisbona [i.e. Lugano], 1759.

12mo (160x104 mm), contemporary full vellum binding, with gilt title and rich gilt decorations at spine, blue sprinkled edges;
[1.]: pp. 316, [1] folding plate.
[2.]: pp. IV, 55, (1 b.).
[3.]: pp. 29, (3 b.)
[4.]: pp. 28
[5.]: pp. 40, [1] leaf of plates.

[1.]: Lugano is a false place of publication [see: C. Caldelari, Bibliografia luganese del Settecento. Le edizioni Agnelli di Lugano. Libri-periodici. Bellinzona, 1999, n. 496].
Xyl. vignette at title-page.
This work includes 16 documents, listed at leaf A3r-v, all of them starting with their own half-title page, except for "Diploma per cui sua Maestà fedelissima con autorità regia [...]", and "Breve SS. Domini Nostri Divina Providentia Clementis 13. [...] ", which start with their title-pages.

[2.]: Xyl. Portugal arms at title-page.

[3.]: Xyl. Portugal arms at title-page.

[5.]: Lisbon is a false place of publication, since this work was published by the tipografia Agnelli in Lugano [see: Bibliografia luganese del Settecento. Le edizioni Agnelli di Lugano. Libri-periodici, scheda n. 89].

The works [2.], [3.] and [4.] deal with the trial, condemnation and execution of the Jesuit Gabriele Malagrida, while the work [5.] is an account of the alleged Jesuit plot to assassinate the king of Portugal, Joseph (1714-1777), the crimes of the Jesuits, and the names of those involved and condemned.

Platel is the pseudonym of Pierre Parisot.

Gabriel Malagrida (18 September or 6 December 1689 - September 1761) was an Italian Jesuit missionary in the Portuguese colony of Brazil and influential figure in the political life of the Lisbon Royal Court who described the devastating 1755 Lisbon earthquake as retribution prompted by God's wrath. Malagrida was famously caught up in the Tavora affair and executed as a blasphemer and heretic. When he could not be convicted for high treason, the Portuguese Prime Minister Sebastian Jose de Carvalho e Melo, Marquis of Pombal, whose brother served as the head Inquisitor, had him executed for heresy.

Provenance: Handwritten ownership inscription at first work title-page (unreadable).

References:
[1.]: IT\ICCU\UBOE\004414. OCLC, 53854561.
[2.]: IT\ICCU\UBOE\004694. OCLC, 635822669 (1 copy in Switzerland), 66721704 (1 copy in the Netherlands) and 249830054 (3 copies in Germany).
[3.]: IT\ICCU\UBOE\004412. OCLC, 252689351 (2 copies in Germany), 53854637 (1 copy in Brazil and 1 copy in USA), 219851233 (1 copy in Australia), 476321270 (1 copy in Denmark), 78224565 (other 2 copies in USA).
[4.]: IT\ICCU\NAPE\020282. OCLC, 12247060 (1 copy in UK, 2 copies in USA), 929308002 (1 copy in Spain), 404821361 (1 copy in France).
[5.]: IT\ICCU\UBOE\004176. OCLC, 42795780 (1 copy in USA), 716933266 (1 copy in Switzerland) and 631804000 (1 copy in Germany).

Traces of use to the spine. Rare spots. A very good copy.