Idea de vn principe politico christiano, rapresentada en cien empresas /
por don Diego de Saauedra Faxardo ...

Description

Main Author

Saavedra Fajardo, Diego de, 1584-1648.

Related Names

Bianchi, Giovanni Paolo, b. ca. 1590.

Language(s)

Spanish

Published

En Monaco a 1 de marzo 1640 ; En Milan : [s.n.], a 20 de abril 1642 [1643 issue]

Subjects

Education of princes > Education of princes / Early works to 1800.
Kings and rulers > Kings and rulers / Duties > Kings and rulers / Duties / Early works to 1800.
Political science > Political science / Early works to 1800.
Engravings > Engravings / Italy > Engravings / Italy / 17th century.
Emblem books > Emblem books / Italy > Emblem books / Italy / 17th century.
Emblems (allegorical pictures) > Emblems (allegorical pictures) / Italy > Emblems (allegorical pictures) / Italy / 17th century.

Note

Includes errata, last leaf.
Printed cancel slip over last 2 lines of p. 168.
Signatures: )(⁴ ²)(⁴ *² A-5A⁴ 5B⁴. First 2 leaves of ²)(⁴ signed )(3 and )(4.
Engraved t.p. and 103 emblematic ill., some signed: Blanc. (Giovanni Paolo Bianchi?). Woodcut initials, tail-pieces composed of printer's ornaments.
Two congratulatory letters by Erycius Puteanus together with Saavedra' reply appear in gathering *². All have dates in 1643. Palau y Dulcet writes that the letters are lacking in all but one of the copies he examined (though he gives 20 preliminary leaves in the collation for the edition, as in the present copy).
First date in imprint is that of the 1st ed. by Nicolao Enrico, Munich; see Palau y Dulcet.

Physical Description

[20], 753, [3] p. : ill. ; 24 cm. (4to)

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