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The foreign politics of Spain

LIPSIUS, Justus.
Sent-brief, in welcke hy antwoorde gheeft aen een seker groot Heer op de vraghe, welck van dryen den Coninck van Hispaengien best gheraden ware, oorloghe of pays oft liever bestant met den Fransman, Engelsche ende Hollander. Gheschreven den derden Januarij 1595. Ghetrouwelijck uyt den Latijn in Nederduytsche tale over-gheset, ende (soo veel alst moghelijcken is) den stijl ghevolcht.

Wodcut ornament on title, woodcut initial and endpiece.

Wodcut ornament on title, woodcut initial and endpiece.



Dusseldorf, Werner vander Horst, 1608. 4to. Wodcut ornament on title, woodcut initial and endpiece. (7, 1 blank) pp.

One of at least five issues of this translation of a Latin letter by Justus Lipsius to Francisco de San Víctores de la Portilla dated Louvain January 3, 1595, in which the author makes clear his thoughts on the foreign politics Spain should aim for. According to the Bibliotheca Belgica this pamphlet was evidently printed in The Netherlands.
Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) was a famous Dutch humanist and universal scholar. Lipsius studied at Louvain, first philosophy and physics, and later also literature, antiquities and law. Later he devoted himself to Latin philology and travelled to Italy to decypher ancient inscriptions. He was received as a honoured guest at the Court of Maximilian at Vienna, but being disgusted of the Spanish Inquisition he went to Jena, where he became professor and conversed to Lutheranism. He came back to the Southern Netherlands in 1574, but again feeling uneasy about the religious troubles he went to Leyden, where he became one of the first professors at the Leyden University and conversed to Calvinism. He was also teacher of Prince Maurice of Orange. But troubled here also by a dispute with Coornhert about the execution of heretics, he returned in 1592 to the Southern Netherlands and to Roman Catholicism. Still, Lipsius' fame remained undisputed and grew daily. He was easily the most respected scholar and humanist of his time.

Good copy.
Knuttel 1496; Bibl. Belg. L 267 ('évidemment imprimée en Hollande. Dusseldorf est un nom de ville supposé.'), L 266 & L 268-70 (other issues).

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  History  Pamphlets  Politics  Spain 

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