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La mendicità proveduta, nella città di Roma : coll'ospizio publico, fondato dalla pietà, e benificenza di nostro signore Innocenzo XII. pontefice massimo : con le risposte all'obiezioni contro simili fondazioni

Piazza, Carlo Bartolomeo, 1632-1713 · 1693 · In Roma : Nella stamperia di Gio. Giacomo Komarek Boëmo ... · 4 pictures

A 1693 Italian treatise printed in Rome by Gio. Giacomo Komarek for the Catholic Church, written by Carlo Bartolomeo Piazza, defending a public almshouse for the poor founded under Pope Innocent XII. The pictures are small woodcut florals, a decorated initial, and a copperplate view of a Roman square with an obelisk, a palace, and a crowd, offering a designer examples of early modern ornament and urban engraving.

Catholic Church. Pope (1691-1700 : Innocent XII) · Catholic Church · Almshouses · Charities · Poor

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