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Father's guidance of sinners d. Pietro Gisolfo of the Congregation of the Fathers Pij Operarij. Part one. Contains thirty discourses, full of effective motives, to abhor sin, & embrace penance. [...]. - In this second impression again corrected by the same author. - In Naples : for Francesco Mollo, 1681.
In 8° (cm. 22 x 16), pp. [12], 656, [52].
Pietro Gisolfo (d. 1683), priest of the Congregation of the Pious Workers Fathers. Rare seventeenth-century ascetic subject, for use by confessors and religious as well as penitents. Only the first part of this second impression has been published (cf. "The seventeenth-century Neapolitans of the National Library of Naples", p. 180, n. 1382). Coeval binding in full soft parchment; handwritten wording on the spine and ancient writings on the plates; sprayed cuts. Engraving vignette on the title page, headers and finials; corners of first pages curled, discreet interiors with ancient glosses, notes, scribbles and pen marks; between the pages old handwritten sheets. We note the fall of the last page of the index; otherwise the tome is complete and in good condition. Rare seventeenth-century study. 67299423
