A lot of 12 works 1676-1700 relating to Pope Innocentius XI, born Benedetto Odescalchi (Como 1611-1689 Rome), Pope 1676-1689 and beatified in 1956. He is celebrated as one of the most prominent popes of the 17th century, and is remembered for reforming the papal curia, eliminating nepotism, and financially supporting the European coalitions against the Ottoman Empire. (His nephew Livio Odescalchi helped Innocentius finance the expedition which ended the Turkish siege at the Battle of Vienna in 1683. Livio Odescalchi himself fought with distinction in the battle, and was made an Imperial Prince and given the title Duke of Syrmia by Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I.) These books all bear the round stamp, bookplate and/or signature of their most recent owner, prince Alexander Erba Odescalchi (Budapest 1914-2008 Saltsjöbaden), who fled Hungary for Sweden with his wife in 1944, before the arrival of the Red Army. Alexander Erba Odescalchi was an avid collector of books and other items relating to his family history.

Not collated, brief condition reports.

1. (Innocentius XI Odescalchi) - Gregorio Leti: L'idee du conclave present, de M.DC.LXXVI ou le pronostique du Pape futur. Amsterdam 1676. 12mo. half leather, worn. Leti’s works were mostly a satirical approach to the Catholic Church and Catholic traditions, and were all placed on the Prohibited Books Index. In this book Leti makes a distinction between the Holy See and the Court of Rome, a distinction which had not been made prior to Leti. Benedetto Odescalchi, the soon-to-be Pope Innocentius XI, is mentioned on p. 2:36 f.

2. (Innocentius XI Odescalchi) - Decretum Innocentii PP XI. exhibens suppressionem officii immaculatae conceptionis sanctiss. virginis, et complurium indulgentiarum. Roma 1678. 4to. [16] pp. Later patterned boards.

3. (Innocentius XI Odescalchi) - Casimir Freschot: I Successi della Fede nell'Inghilterra. Con la storia dell’ultime eresie […] fino alla felice libertà data alla religione cattolica dal regnante Giacomo II. […] Seconda edizione. Bologna 1687. 12mo. Lacking at least one leaf, pp. 119/20. Old paper boards. Pope Innocentius XI Odescalchi welcomed an embassy from the English catholic king James II (Giacomo) to Rome in 1687.

4. (Innocentius XI Odescalchi) - Giovanni Giustino Ciampini: Ad sanctissimum, et beatissimum patrem d. n. Innocentium XI pont. max. Coniecturae de perpetuo azymorum usu in ecclesia Latina, vel saltem Romana. Roma 1688. 4to. With engraved frontispiece. Old full vellum, fine. Recent label across spine.

5. (Innocentius XI Odescalchi) - Arrest rendu en la cour deparlement sur la Bulle du Pape, concernant les Franchises dans la ville de Rome. Paris 1688. 4to. Stiff paper boards. The so-called ”freedom of lodging” consisted of the right of foreign envoys to grant asylum to lawbreakers not only within their embassies but also in the adjacent quarters of Rome. Since this permanently jeopardized the maintenance of the legal order, several popes sought to abolish this privilege. The dispute escalated under Innocentius XI and Louis XIV.

6. (Innocentius XI Odescalchi) - Gründliche Ausführung des berühmten Streits Zwischen dem Pabst und Könige in Franckreich wegen der Quartiers-Freyheit in Rom. Cölln 1689. 4to. Later brown wrappers, contents browned. Same subject as the previous item, the ”freedom of lodging” in Rome.

7. (Innocentius XI Odescalchi) - Jose Rodriguez: Sermon funebre de las celebres, y autorizadas honras que a nuestro santissimo padre Inocencio Vndecimo, Pontifice Maximo. Valencia 1690. 4to. Facsimile of an unrelated portrait of the Pope tipped in as a frontispiece by recent owner Alexander Erba Odescalchi. Later boards. Final leaves stained or heavily browned, some foxing throughout.

8. (Innocentius XI Odescalchi) - Vita d'Innocenzo undecimo. Venezia 1690. 4to. With engraved portrait. Printed in red & black. Recent boards, original stiff wrappers bound in with ms title. Faint waterstaining. Biography of Pope Innocentius XI.

9. (Innocentius XI Odescalchi) - Der Römische Stuhl wie selbiger Vor, In, und nach der Wahl Eines Neuen Haupts der Römisch-Catholischen Kirchen, beschaffen. No place, 1691. 4to. With 2 engraved portraits: Pope Innocentius XI and his successor Alexander VIII. Contemporary marbled boards, spine defective.

10. (Innocentius XI Odescalchi) - Curiöser Geschichts-Calender aller Römischen Päpste insonderheit Innocentii XI. Alexandri VIII. und Innocentii XII. Leipzig, Martin Theodor Heybey, 1697. 12mo. With engraved frontispiece. Later wrappers, some wear and staining, a few leaves loose.

11. (Innocentius XI Odescalchi) - Francesco Caccia: Innocentia Apostolica […] Innocentii. Neyss 1699. 4to. With engraved portrait. Worn patterned paper boards. Recent inscription in ink. Biography of Pope Innocentius XI Odescalchi.

12. (Innocentius XI Odescalchi) - Joannis de Cardenas: Crisis Theologica. Venetiis 1700. 4to. Contemporary vellum. Some occasional foxing. 42 dissertations discussing propositions condemned by the late Pope Innocentius XI.

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