Religious order of chivalry. FENICIA, Salvatore. Cantica con comenti sul principio e nobile scopo dell'inclito Ordine Gerosolimitano di S. Giovanni. Napoli, Stabilimento Tipografico Perrotti, 1859 Large 8vo, 225x147 mm; Publisher’s binding. Pp. 67. Colored pictorial frontispiece engraved by Perrotta, depicting Fenicia as the chief of the Jerusalem Order. Good copy.
First edition. Salvatore Fenicia, knight of the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, celebrates the glories and the "glorious" history of the Order, seeking the origin and causes that gave rise to this institution and exalting its primacy over the other Orders of chivalry for his "very noble purpose". In the work, moreover, we also review the authors who have previously praised the opulence, the noble knights emeritus who have distinguished themselves in this Order and the other orders of chivalry that have branched out and developed from this.
Religious order of chivalry. FENICIA, Salvatore. Cantica con comenti sul principio e nobile scopo dell'inclito Ordine Gerosolimitano di S. Giovanni. Napoli, Stabilimento Tipografico Perrotti, 1859 Large 8vo, 225x147 mm; Publisher’s binding. Pp. 67. Colored pictorial frontispiece engraved by Perrotta, depicting Fenicia as the chief of the Jerusalem Order. Good copy.
First edition. Salvatore Fenicia, knight of the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, celebrates the glories and the "glorious" history of the Order, seeking the origin and causes that gave rise to this institution and exalting its primacy over the other Orders of chivalry for his "very noble purpose". In the work, moreover, we also review the authors who have previously praised the opulence, the noble knights emeritus who have distinguished themselves in this Order and the other orders of chivalry that have branched out and developed from this.
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