An Outline of the Life of Antonio Rosmini, Founder of the Institute of Charity. With a Short Sketch of His Philosophical System, by Monsignor Gastaldi, Archbishop of Turin, Edited by Father Lockhart. Second Edition.

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12mo, 160 x 100 mms., pp. [9- 10 - 132, attractively bound in red cloth, front cover blocked in gilt within border. A very good to fine copy, but with circular library stamp on title-page A work with a similar title was first published in 1856, and this appears to be a slightly altered reprint. Rosmini (1797 - 1855). In the early 1820s, Rosmini "was encouraged by Pius VII to undertake the reform of philosophy" (). By the late 1820s, Rosmini had written "his fundamental philosophical work, A New Essay concerning the Origin of Ideas (1830). As the title suggests, this was intended to supersede Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding." A collected edition of his works in 17 volumes was issued at Milan (1842 44), supplemented by Opere postume in 5 volumes (Turin, 1859 74. William Henry Lockart (1819 - 1892) converted to Roman Catholicism in 1843, the first of the so-called Tractarians to go over to Rome, and in 1886 he published the second volume of a Life of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, the first volume of which, by G. S. MacWalter, had appeared in 1883. Copies of this second edition located in Saint Joseph's Seminary, Emory University Pitts Theology, Biblioteca Civica de Rovereto. In these islands, Library Hub locates six copies of the first edition of 1856 and one copy at Durham of this second edition.

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An Outline of the Life of Antonio Rosmini, Founder of the Institute of Charity. With a Short Sketch of His Philosophical System, by Monsignor Gastaldi, Archbishop of Turin, Edited by Father Lockhart. Second Edition.

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London: Burns and Oates.

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1880

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