1665 1ed Eighty Years War Flanders Spain Dutch Independence Strada Battle Scenes

1665 1^ed Eighty Years War Flanders Spain Dutch Independence Strada Battle Scenes

Illustrated with 21 Incredible Engravings +Double Page

Famiano Strada (1572 – 1649) was a Jesuit priest, historian, and moralist.

The Eighty Years’ War or Dutch War of Independence (1566–1648) was a revolt of the Seventeen Provinces against the political and religious hegemony of Philip II of Spain, the sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands. After the initial stages, Philip II deployed his armies and regained control over most of the rebelling provinces. However, under the leadership of the exiled William the Silent, the northern provinces continued their resistance. They were eventually able to oust the Habsburg armies, and in 1581 they established the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.

Main author: Famiano Strada; Pierre Du Ryer

Title: Histoire de la Guerre de Flandre

Published: Suivant la copie impr. à Paris, 1665.

Language: French

Notes & contents:

• Illustrated with 21 engravings
  • 13 portraits including
    • Phillip II of Spain
    • Charles V
    • Margarita Parma
    • Antonius Perenotyus
    • Ferdinandus of Spain
  • 8 double-page illustrations
    • Battle scenes
  • Signatures, v. 1: *⁴, A-Z⁸, Aa-Zz⁸, Aaa⁸

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Binding: tight and secure leather binding

Pages: complete with all 722 pages; plus indexes, prefaces, and such

Publisher: Suivant la copie impr. à Paris, 1665.

Size: ~7.5in X 4.5in (19cm x 12cm)

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Famiano Strada (Rome, 1572 – there, ninth in Jun. 1 649) was a Jesuit priest, historian and moralist.

Famiano Strada was a Jesuit scholar who taught at the Collegio Romano of the Jesuits in Rome. He taught rhetoric and Latin to include Bishop Lorenzo della Robbia and Pope Clement IX. He was fiercely anti Tacitus, because he felt that the Roman writer was to undermine the authority of the king and gave rise to undermine confidence in the leadership.

The most famous work of Famiano Strada, De Bello Belgico decades duae, 1555-1590 (Dutch: The war in the Low Countries), and was written with the help of Alexander Farnese (1545-1592), around 1602. It was published in 1632 and translated into Dutch in 1646. In 1655 it was published in Dordrecht at the time that neither Holland nor in four other provinces a supporter of Orange was governor. The book describes the sights and sounds of the battle between the Spanish troops of the Duke of Parma and the troops of the States General of William of Orange.

Strada’s historiography of the Eighty Years’ War became in the 17th century, known in the Netherlands and was criticized for its pro-Spanish attitude of Strada. Strada defended in turn by indicating that the supporters of Orange fought not from religious conviction but only the material interests of the secular nobles defended.

Another important work is Prolusiones academicae (Scholar Previews “), issued in 1617, with treatises on style and criticism. Here one finds include a story about a nightingale and a musician, which later formed the inspiration for the English playwright John Ford (1586-1640) in the writing of The Lovers Melancholy.