1799 · Venezia
by Fenzo, Modesta & Giovanni Zatta, Editors
Venezia: Presso Modesto Fenzo, 1799. 8vo. 210 x 140 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/5 inches]. [3]-112 pp., wanting half-title and engraved portrait. Bound in later library binding, cloth spine, marbled paper boards. Notes in manuscript throughout, typical of editorial work for a new edition.
First edition published a few months after his death in August of 1788. Considered a heroic Pope because of his denunciation of Napoleon and the French Revolution. Pius VI condemned the French Revolution and the suppression of the Catholic Church in France that resulted from it. French troops commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Papal army and occupied the Papal States in 1796. In 1798, upon his refusal to renounce his temporal power, Pius was taken prisoner and transported to France. He died eighteen months later in Valence. His reign of more than twenty-four years is the fifth-longest in papal history.. (Inventory #: 1331)
First edition published a few months after his death in August of 1788. Considered a heroic Pope because of his denunciation of Napoleon and the French Revolution. Pius VI condemned the French Revolution and the suppression of the Catholic Church in France that resulted from it. French troops commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Papal army and occupied the Papal States in 1796. In 1798, upon his refusal to renounce his temporal power, Pius was taken prisoner and transported to France. He died eighteen months later in Valence. His reign of more than twenty-four years is the fifth-longest in papal history.. (Inventory #: 1331)
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