Andrea Guevarrre - La Mendicità sbandita col sovvenimento de' poveri - 1717

Mendicity disbanded with the aid of the poor by Andrea Guevarrre First edition Three works in one book First part: pp. 8 + 196 Second part: - pp. 144 + 4 Third part: - pp. 52 + 3 Full leather binding - back with knots and slight lacks Woodcut crown on the title page of the first work. Large Savoy royal coats of arms on the second and third frontispieces. Woodcut drop caps and end caps. Handwritten annotations from the same period as the title page of the first work. Cord back with gold friezes Dimensions in cm 22 x 16. 5 Publisher Gianfrancesco Mairesse and Giovanni Radix Turin 1717 Very good condition N. B. Famous work on reform policy and economic interventions to eliminate the social scourge of begging in the Sardinian states. The other two works, closely connected to the first, are the Regulations of Hospices and Institutes of Charity to be founded in Piedmont. Document of considerable importance on one of the most significant socio-economic wounds in the Italian and European society of the eighteenth century. Source of primary importance for studying the reign of Vittorio Amedeo II of Savoy.