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From the mid-sixteenth century the port of Algiers had been the main
base of the Barbary pirates. Repeated attempts were made over the centuries
by various European powers to take Algiers and subdue the pirates, of
which this 1783 raid was another – unsuccessful – Spanish attempt. It was
not until 1830, when the city was attacked by the French army, and eventually
had to surrender, that piracy was stopped.
OCLC lists one copy at New York Public Library.
Enlightened Leader
6 ARCO, Giovanni Battista Gherardo d’. Elogio di Carlo Conte
di Firmian. Mantova, Alberto Pazzoni, 1783. £550
Large paper copy (263 x 193 mm), 8vo, pp. 84, contemporary full
vellum; a Wne, exceptionally large copy; from the Sormani Andreani
Verri library, with armorial bookplate to front pastedown.
First edition, elegantly printed, of Arco’s elogio on his cousin Carlo count
Firmian (1718–1782), a writer, diplomat, councillor of Maria Theresia and
the minister plenipotentiary of Austrian Lombardy. Throughout his career
the economist Arco (1739–1791), who himself came from a noble family,
was particularly critical of the privileges of the nobility. However, here he
Wrst delineates the illustrious heritage of his cousin and gives details of his
political achievements, before underlining the responsibility of the nobility
to serve as an example of virtue and uprightness to the people. The
extensive library of count Firmian was dispersed to meet substantial debts,
and was partly acquired by the Milan library La Braidense. Count Firmian
had not only an important role to play as the representative of enlightened
Austrian government in Lombardy, but he was also closely involved in the
re-organisation of university education.
Not found in OCLC.
Beccaria Refuted
7 BANNIZA von BAZAN, Joseph Leonard. Disquisitio
de Tortura nec ex integro reprobate nec ex integro adprobata.
Oeniponti [Innsbruck], Johann Thomas Trattner, 1774. £680
8vo, [xvi], 94; foxing due to paper quality; contemporary illustrated
paper over thin boards, rebacked.
First edition of this detailed study of the function of torture in criminal law,
in the wake of the Constitutio Criminalis Theresiana, which had regulated
the use of torture, and had provided speciWc guide lines as to which kind of
torture could be used for which oVence, or in which investigation. Banniza
gives a detailed overview of the use and legality of torture, and in particular
takes issue with the more liberal opinions of Beccaria, who rejected torture
as a means of extracting confessions. Throughout Banniza cites repeatedly
from Beccaria’s Dei Delitti e delle Pene.
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