POST-NAPOLEONIC PAPAL CONSTITUTION
[PAPAL STATES.]
Constitutio Sanctissimi Domini Nostri Pii PP. VII. super restauratione regiminis pontificii.
Rome and Ancona, ‘ex typographia societatis Palmini’, 1800.
4to, pp. 32, [4]; some foxing and browning throughout, with manuscript page numbers from a sammelband in upper corner of rectos; final two leaves are two circolari tipped in; in recent red cloth, gilt-lettered paper label on spine.
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Constitutio Sanctissimi Domini Nostri Pii PP. VII. super restauratione regiminis pontificii.
Very rare Ancona printing, in the same year as the original Rome issue, of this Papal decree issued the day after the restoration of the Papal States after two years of the Napoleonic Roman Republic. The fall of the Republic was triggered by the arrival in October 1799 of Neapolitan troops, but it was not until June 1800 that the Papal States were restored, and this constitution is a fully worked-out statement of the ways in which the economy and legal system of the States was to be organised. The volume sets out the organisation of public administration and the roles of officials, the structure and competences of courts and tribunals, both civil and criminal, and the procedures for the election of magistrates. Two circulars tipped in at the end, both dated November 8, 1800, relate to the operation of the Sacra Congregazione del Buon Governo and its role in restoring the form of governance active before the French occupation, an occupation which was to be renewed later in the decade.
This printing not in OCLC, which records the Rome printing at Toronto, UCLA, Lyons, Maynooth, and the Biblioteca nazionale centrale in Rome; ICCU records one copy of this issue, at the Biblioteca comunale Luciano Benincasa in Ancona.
