ACONCIO, JACOPO — Stratagematum Satanae libri octo. Editio novissima.

Amsterdam, Johannes Ravesteijn, 1652. Frontispice. Parchment. 12°. (X) 392 pp. old library sticker on spine, stamp from the anabaptist library Amsterdam on frontispice, good condition Latin text. On the endpaper old explanation in Dutch about the printing history of the book. The first edition was printed in Basel in 1565 and reprinted in 1610. 'Jacopo Aconcio (c.1520 - c.1566) was an Italian jurist, theologian, philosopher and engineer. He is now known for his contribution to the history of religious toleration'. (...) His heterodoxy is revealed in his Stratagematum Satanae libri octo, sometimes abbreviated as Stratagemata Satanae, published in 1565 and translated into various languages. The Stratagems of Satan are the dogmatic creeds which rent the Christian church. Aconcio sought to find the common denominator of the various creeds; this was essential doctrine, and the rest was immaterial. To arrive at this common basis, he had to reduce dogma to a low level, and his result was generally repudiated. Stratagemata Satanae was not translated into English until 1647, but afterwards, it became very influential among English liberal theologians.