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Apparent first edition, very rare, of Gustá’s first and full articulation of his attack on the Jansenists as responsible for the horrors of the French Revolution.

The Catalan Jesuit Gustá (1744–1816) characterizes the Jansenists as the most effective allies of the philosophes and Encyclopedists in the deistic and atheistic conspiracy, and as the most pernicious agents in bringing about the horrors of the French Revolution. He deploys Burke’s and Spedalieri’s points on the nexus between Jansenists and philosophes to muster a comprehensive and radical discussion of the influence of Jansenism and ‘philosophy’ combined on the French Revolution. In the juxtaposition between the Port-Royal and the modern Jansenist generations, it is the second, with its ambiguous alliance with deism and atheism, that Gustá marks as the more challenging for the future of Rome and faith itself.

Gustá continued his passionate apologetic work through publications in 1794 and 1795, all written and published in Italian and similarly rare.

Very rare outside Italy: OCLC finds one copy in Spain (BNE), one in Germany (LMU), one in the US (Dayton), and none in the UK.

Cf. Palau 111282, suggesting an earlier edition (Ferrara, heirs of Giuseppe Rinaldi, 1792) which we have not been able to trace.