Della Probita Naturale
ROBERTI, G.
Libri Due. Di Giambatista AB. Conte Roberti.
RARE TURIN PRINTING
Published: Alliana E Paravia Torino, 1825
Stock code: 14686
Price: £180.00
2 books in one vol., 8vo., text in Italian, on laid paper, some very light spotting (mainly marginal); neat nineteenth signature on front free endpaper; contemporary pebble-grain cloth, calf back with five bands ruled in gilt, second compartment lettered and ruled in gilt, boards unevenly faded, fore-edges a little dust-soiled else a very good, bright, firm copy.
A MOST UNUSUAL TURIN PRINTING of Roberti's treatise on ethics and integrity, nominated by Gamba as one of his better works, and first published in Bassano, the author's birthplace, in 1784. In it, Roberti takes his inspiration from Montesquieu and others in exploring the distinction between honesty and truthfulness, uprightness and moral rectitude. The treatise is divided into two parts; the first exploring six 'doubts', the second concentrating on six founding principles. Both parts contain numerous examples, some literary and some factual. Extremely scarce, especially in this condition. Gamba 2420 (recording the first edition).