Vera Idea della Libertà e della Uguaglianza ai Popolo Liberi d’Italia.
Bologna: Per le Stampe di Jacopo Marsigli ai Celestini, 1797. 8vo. 205 x 130 mm. (8 x 5 ¼ inches) 60 pp. / Contemporary blue paper wrappers. Ownership stamp in black ink of Ettienne Della Valle. Item #40
Rare pamphlet written a year after the French occupation and the establishment of Bologna as the capital of the short-lived Cisalpine Republic, a confederation of northern Italian cities into an independent political unit. The author focuses his attention on the clergy and the aristocracy and poses hypothetical questions about the rights of the people and responsibilities of the ruling class to create reforms that will bolster the standard of living and political power of agricultural and artisan classes.
Not listed in NUC; OCLC cites copies in North America at University of Connecticut and University of Toronto only.
Price: $750.00