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"BENTIVOGLIO, (GUIDO) CARDINAL.
Relationi del Cardinal Bentivoglio.
Brussel, Giovanni de Meerbeecq, 1632. 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands, richly gilt spine, gilt lettering. Slightly rubbed. Portrait vignette on title in woodcut. (16),479,(14) pp. Some scattered old underlinings. A faint dampstain to lower corners on the first 10 leaves.
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Scarce early edition of Bentivoglio's ""The History of the Wars of Flanders...."" On 22 June 1633, Cardinal Bentivoglio was one of the signers of the papal condemnation of Galileo. An able writer and skilful diplomat, Bentivoglio was marked out as Urban's successor, but he died suddenly after the opening of the 1644 Papal conclave. He is buried in the church of San Silvestro al Quirinale, Rome.
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Opere del Cardinal Bentivoglio, cio è , Le Relationi di Fiandra , e di Francia , L'Historia della Guerra di Fiandra , e Le lettere scritte nel tempo delle sue Nuntiature. Nuovamente Raccolte insieme.
.: 12. Parigi ( Paris ) , appresso Giovanni Iost , 1648, in-folio, 34,5 x 23 cm, title with large copper engraved vignet + (10)nn pp + 172 pp + (4)nn pp (index) + (2)(subtitle) + 673 pp + (2)(tavola) + (1)(bl), complete, Bound in contemporary vellum, smooth spine with manuscript title. Binding slightly soiled, vellum spine with a transverse tear and some small loss of vellum, first fly leaf with a small loss of paper, first 100 pp with a small marginal clear waterstain, notwithstanding these defects still a good copy. First edition of the collected works of cardinal Guido Bentivoglio ( 1579 - 1644 ) . He served as papal nuncio to Flanders and afterwards to France. He was a respected diplomat and his observations on the history of Flanders and the Netherlands are highly esteemed. Text in Italian..
