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4to. 2 vols. Vol. 1: [16], 619 pages. Vol. 2: 638, [36] pages, which are preceded by the Summarium ad Historiam Hispaniae eorum quae acciderunt annis sequentibus, Moguntiae, Impensis Danielis ac Dauidis Aubriorum & Clementis Schleichii, 1619, (41, [11] pages). 18th-century calf, covers decorated with a triple fillet border in blind; gold-tooled spine, sprinkled red-edged leaves. Worn at corners, joints and at head and foot of spines; some damp-staining at beginning of each volume; pages browned at end of volume 1, more so in the Summarium and in the second half of volume 2. **** Educated at the University of Alcalá, Mariana taught in Loreto, Sicily, Paris and the Low Countries and became Professor of Theology at Rome. He returned to Spain and from 1574 lived in Toledo. His Historiae de rebus Hispaniae libri XX (Toledo, 1592) was completed to the full thirty books in this Mainz edition of 1605, by which time Mariana s own Castilian version had appeared (Toledo, 1601). It made available to Spaniards and (through the Latin original) to the rest of Europe, a compendium of Spanish legend and history to the death of Ferdinand. Ticknor aptly called it the most remarkable union of picturesque chronicling with sober history that the world has ever seen , but its picturesque quality led to a detailed list of errors being published by the historian, Pedro Mantuano (Advertencia a la Historia de Juan de Mariana, Milan, 1611) - Ward, pp.361-2; Penney, p.335; BL 17th-century German, M303. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 18/117
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