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5 volumes. Various paginations. Engraved frontispiece in the earliest volume; engraved and woodcut vignettes, head- and tail-pieces and initial letters. (4to) period full calf, spines gilt. 

Scarce collections of sermons. Alessandro Borgia (1682–1764) was an Italian bishop and archbishop. From a patrician family of Velletri which was only distantly related to the better known house of Borgia, he was the son of Clemente Erminio Borgia. He studied theology and letters at the "Sapienza" and in 1706 followed Monsignor Bussi to Cologne as secretary to the legation there, succeeding him as nuncio on Bussi's promotion to cardinal in 1712. He remained in northern Europe until 1714, when he was made governor of Assisi, in 1716 becoming bishop of Nocera Umbra. In 1724 he was made archbishop of Fermo, remaining in that diocese until the end of his life.