1728 Scarce Latin Book - The Sacred Heart of Blessed Virgin Mary or the sum of the Sanctity by Giovanni Pietro Pinamonti.
Author: Giovanni Pietro Pinamonti.
Title: Sanctissimum cor Mariae, sive Summa Mariae sanctitas, per septem selectissimas considerationes, et pulcherrimas sanctorum praxes.
Language: Text in Latin.
Publisher: Graecij : literis Haeredum Widmanstadij, 1728.
Size : 5.5 " X 3.5 ".
Pages: (24)-229 pages + Index.
Binding: Good and attractive original full calf leather binding (hinges tight, head of spine worn - as shown, overall worn and scuffed - as shown) under a removable protective mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright and tight, rare foxing or staining - as shown).
Illustrations: Including a very nice frontis illustration of the Blessed Virgin Mary with Jesus titled Virgo Mater and signed by C. Diestel.
The book: Scarce 18th-century edition of this book on The devotion to the Sacred Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The author: Giovanni Pietro Pinamonti (Pistoia, 27 December 1632 - Orta, 25 June 1703) was an Italian Jesuit. Giovanni Pietro Pinamonti was born in 1632 in Pistoia, Tuscany, the son of Caterina Campanelli and Giovanni Pinamonti del Terchio. In 1647, in Rome he wore the habit of the Society of Jesus, completing his studies in Rhetoric and Philosophy, completing the scholastic course of Theology. From 1664, together with Paolo Segneri, he began his activity in the missions, dedicating himself particularly to confessions.