310 - [Osimo] Dissertation, or Essay on the Reasons Why the Legend of Saint Esuperanzio Is Proven to Be Apocryphal. Osimo, Quercetti, 1771. Bound with Second Dissertation… Osimo, Quercetti, 1771. Bound with *Animadversiones in allegationem causidicoru cingulana*; a rare, half-leather-bound volume containing pamphlets on the controversy between Osimo and Cingoli

[Osimo] Dissertation, or Essay on the Reasons Why the Legend of Saint Esuperanzio Is Proven to Be Apocryphal. Osimo, Quercetti, 1771. Bound with Second Dissertation… Osimo, Quercetti, 1771. Bound with *Animadversiones in allegationem causidicoru cingulana*; a rare, half-leather-bound volume containing pamphlets on the controversy between Osimo and Cingoli [Osimo] Dissertation, or Essay, on the Reasons Why the Legend of Saint Esuperanzio Is Proven to Be Apocryphal. Osimo, Quercetti, 1771. Bound with Second Dissertation… Osimo, Quercetti, 1771. Bound with *Animadversiones in allegationem causidicoru cingulana*… Lucca, no date. Quarto (280 x 210 mm); 39, [1]; xxxvii, [2]; CXXXXVII, [1] pages. Copperplate engraving outside the text, folded several times (some foxing). Publisher’s paperback binding in rustic-style cardboard (spine reinforced with parchment). This collection documents the controversy between Osimo and Cingoli regarding the authenticity of the hagiographic tradition of Saint Esuperanzio, intertwined with the historical, ecclesiastical, and patrimonial claims of the two communities. A testament to the scholarly disputes that animated the Marche region in the 18th century. Untrimmed copy of rare pamphlets concerning a controversy between Osimo and Cingoli