ORATION ON DEATH OF LEADING ACADEMIC

[Finestres i Monsalvo, Josep] Dou y de Bassóls, Ramon Lazaro de: In funere D. Iosephi de Finestres et de Monsalvo, iurisconsulti Barcinonensis, primarii legum antecessoris emeriti in Academia Cervariensi, oratio habita ad Senatum Academicum XVII. Kal. Ian. An. MDCCLXXVIII. Cervariae Lacetanorum, Typis Academicis 1778.

Oration on the death of Josep Finestres i Monsalvo (1688-1777), professor in the law faculty at the University of Cervera. This important academic leader, also a classical scholar and antiquarian, was a close correspondent of the Valencia and Madrid jurist and leading figure of the Spanish Enlightenment Gregorio Mayans (1699-1781). The text has discussion of Finestres' work, including framing it within the early modern legal tradition. The author of the oration (1742-1832) was a pupil of Finestres, later a rector of the university and an important jurist in his own right.

Details

Small 4to., pp. [6] LXVI [2]. With final blank. Foxing, strengthening to gutter of title-page at verso, but good, bound in recent burgundy library cloth.

CCPB000432469-2 (one of two issues). Palau 75986. Aguilar Piñal III 822. Simon Palmer 2687. OCLC (01/18) shows copies outside Spain in Paris and on Danish Union Catalogue. For further on Finestres, see Vila, esp. 211-215.