Concilium Romanum in Sacrosancta Lateranensi Basilica Celebratum, Anno Universalis Jubilaei MDCCXXV, A Sanctissimo Patre, et Domino Nostro Benedicto Papa XIII, Pontificatus sui anno primo. Bruxellis: Typis Francisci Foppens, Cum Priviligio Caesareo, 1726. [11699]
Full leather, backstrip separated at front edge, front board weakly attached, worn with some cuts and crazing. 15.3 x 9 cm (6 x 3 1/2 inches), engraved portrait of Pope Benedict XIII, title page in red & black with papal emblem. Paper label at top of backstrip with an institutional round emboss stamp on the tp and one leaf of text. [i-xxii], [1]-428, [1-24 Index], [1] pages. Text is good to very good, collated and complete. Fair. Hardcover.
The Lateran Council of 1725 was convened by Pope Benedict XIII during a Jubilee Year. It was an attempt to improve preaching in the Church, to correct inefficiencies in the distribution of ecclesiastical benefits, and to institute the reform of some church practices and governance. The Pope, a Dominican of monastic habits, attempted to curtail excesses and the decadent lifestyles of the Italian priesthood, abolished the lottery in Rome and the Papal States, built several hospitals for the poor, but was undercut in his efforts by politically stronger underlings.
