Giustiniani, L.; Brownlee, W. C. Papal Rome As It Is, by A Roman; with an Introduction, by the Rev. W. C. Brownlee, D.D., Of the Protestant Episcopal Church of New York. Baltimore: Publication Rooms, 1843. Second Edition. [10615]
Stated second edition, printed the same year as the copyright date.
Faded black cloth, blind pattern to boards, spine title in gilt, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches, tight. Gift inscription dated April 18, 1853 on the ffep. xvi., 262 unmarked pp., dark foxing throughout. Good. Hardcover.
Recommendations include those by Brownlee, John G. Morris, Robert J. Breckinridge, Benjamin Kurtz, and John S. Michell.
An anti-Catholic diatribe written during a time of agitation against immigrant Roman Catholics and published one year before the advent of the Know Nothing nativist party.
After the Introduction by Brownlee and printed certificates that establish the bona fides of the author as once being a Papal priest, we have an account of his conversion to the Protestant faith and then begins refutations of Roman doctrine and practice. There are chapters on the "Absurdities and Delusions of the Mass," heathen and papal Rome, the Opening of the Eyes of the Virgin Mary, The Patriarch of Egypt and the Hormed Priest, the Infallibility of the Pope, Apostolical Succession, Apostolical Doctrines, Adoration of Saints, Persecutions, Three Months in the Convent of the Cordelier, Moral Corruptions, Avarice the corner stone of the Church of Rome, Jesuitism, Miracles, &c.
Rev. Louis Giustiniani (1791-1855), b. Rome, Italy; d. Cincinnati, Ohio. He was born to an ancient and honorable Italian family with marital ties to England; he became a Roman priest but converted to Protestantism.
The London based Western Australian Missionary Society sent him as a missionary to the Swan River Colony in Western Australia, arriving in 1836. The Society's notice of him said that he had been in the habit of preaching in London in English, and was also fluent in German, French, and Italian, and also knew the Biblical languages, as well as Latin. His support of the native peoples led to conflict with the civil authorities, and charges were laid against him that resulted in his leaving the colony.
Giustiniani became a minister with the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Synod of Maryland. He was appointed by them as missionary to the German-speaking brethren on Fell's Point, Baltimore.
