HUMAN RIGHTS AND INEQUALITY [CAVALLERI, Paolo Agostino.]
Lettera dall’Adriatico del signor Antonio Bianchi sopra l’opera de’diritti dell’uomo del sig. abate D. Nicola Spedalieri …
First edition, uncommon, of this counter-revolutionary polemic written in response to Spedalieri’s I diritti dell’uomo of the previous year and attributed to the Barnabite Paolo Agostino Cavalleri (1742-1803). Spedalieri had attempted a Catholic response to the revolutionary ideas of the rights of man, based on a largely Thomist interpretation of natural law theory, but his work, despite winning the approval of Pius VI, found few friends at the time, and it was banned in Piedmont and elsewhere.
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