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Bentivoglio, Guido

Reports [...] published by Erycio Puteano in Antwerp, 1630

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€ 100 - 200

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€ 154

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Information

Cologne, s.e., 1630. In 4th. 2 parts in 1 vol. Nice chalcographic frontispiece with vignette depicting the city of Antwerp, some stains, brownings and blooms, the last probably white paper missing, gap in the white margin of p. 15, coeval parchment binding, stains and slight defects. Ownership note on the guard sheet. § In the lot also the first volume only (of 3), Of the War of Flanders, printed in & nbsp; Cologne in 1632.


Specialist Notes

I work: important report of political, diplomatic and military events in Flanders in the early decades of the seventeenth century written by the famous religious and historian Guido & nbsp; Bentivoglio & nbsp; (Ferrara, 1579-Rome, 1644). The first edition is from 1629. Brunet, I, 778; Graesse, I, p. 337; Relatives, p. 75; Merola, Diz. Biogr. d. Italians, VIII, 637: "The fortune of the work was enormous, founded on the diplomatic sources that the & nbsp; Bentivoglio & nbsp; had collected copiously , seasoned with moral maxims and supported by robust eloquence, aimed at revealing the intrigues that behind the religious, political passions and economic disputes had finally determined the course of events. "

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