Author: Alfonso Cassuto Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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Published: 1626

Total Pages: 282

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20 discourses, each preceded by a chapter title and responding to material from Part 1 of Francisco de Quevedo's Politica de Dios, a satirical work about the Church. The volume begins with a dedication to Antonio Sotomayor, confessor to Philip IV and later Grand Inquisitior of the Spanish Inquisition. Marginal notes, both in the hand of the text and later hands, provide classical, patristic, and Biblical references. One marginal note that flags an error in one of the chapter titles gives evidence of a reader comparing the manuscript to the printed work (f. 107v).