TREE OF KNOWLEDGE
OF GOOD, AND EVIL
In the sole Paradise of the Holy Catholic, Apostolic Roman Church, unfadingly flourishing:
Religiously cultivated by those studious of True Wisdom:
Torn, cut down, distorted, and put to evil use by heretics, the perverse, and deceivers:
Bravely defended by Supreme Pontiffs, Ecumenical Councils, Holy Fathers, and Doctors with the divine, burning sword of Cherubic Doctrine:
YEAR OF THE JUBILEE 1700.
U N D E R T H E P A T R O N A G E
OF THE SERENE REPUBLIC OF VENICE
IN THE GENERAL CHAPTER
Of the Friars Minor of the Holy Father Francis at the Sacred Altar of Heaven, publicly displayed on the Capitol to the Catholic, Rome-seeking, and Seraphic World:
P R E S E N T E D B Y
Father Michael Angelus Farolfus of Candia, son of the Holy Roman Province of the Observants, and Minister Provincial, ex-Minister of Candia, formerly Commissary General in the Roman Curia, General and Pontifical Lecturer of Theology, Imperial Preacher, Consultant of the Holy Office of Turin, Theologian to His Sacred Imperial Majesty and several supreme princes in Italy: Consultant of the Sacred Congregations of the Index and of Rites, and voter for the State of the Regulars (now suppressed) and of the Apostolic Visitation.
A N D A L S O
Father Francis Cajetanus Menegatus of Verona, of the Holy Province of the Observants of Saint Anthony, General Preacher, and Jubilate Lecturer of Sacred Theology.
A decorative printer's ornament consists of floral and leaf-like scrollwork.
ROME, Printed by Jo: Jacobi Komarek the Bohemian, near the Trivium Fountain 1700.
B Y P E R M I S S I O N O F S U P E R I O R S.
An oval institutional library stamp: NATIONAL LIBRARY VITTORIO EMANUELE ROME