The history of the managements of Cardinal Julio Mazarine...Tom. I. Part I.
London.
Printed by H[enry] L[loyd] and R[obert] B[attersby], 1671.
First edition in English.
12mo.
In two parts. [10], 14, 13-132, 125-388, 387-487, [15]; [2], 96, 95-373pp, [15]. Text complete despite erratic pagination. Without terminal blanks to each part. ESTC R7234, Wing G2168. Tom. I Part II (Wing G2169) has separate title page; imprint reads 'London, Printed by H. Lloyd for George Calvert and Sam. Sprint...and Christopher Wilkinson...1672'.
[Together with:] [GUALDO PRIORATO, Galeazzo]. The history of the managements of Cardinal Julio Mazarine...Tom. I. Part III. London. Printed by H[enry] L[loyd] and are to be sold by Geo. Calvert... 1673. 12mo. [2], 536pp, [12]. Some loss to leaves B9, C5, and Q8 - touching text with slight loss of sense. ESTC R228409, Wing G2169A.
In three volumes. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Vol. I recently rebacked, preserving contemporary lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed, joints of Vol. II split. Scattered spotting.
[Together with:] [GUALDO PRIORATO, Galeazzo]. The history of the managements of Cardinal Julio Mazarine...Tom. I. Part III. London. Printed by H[enry] L[loyd] and are to be sold by Geo. Calvert... 1673. 12mo. [2], 536pp, [12]. Some loss to leaves B9, C5, and Q8 - touching text with slight loss of sense. ESTC R228409, Wing G2169A.
In three volumes. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Vol. I recently rebacked, preserving contemporary lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed, joints of Vol. II split. Scattered spotting.
The first edition in English of Italian historian Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato's (1606-1678) monumental memoir of Jules Mazarin (1602-1661); French-Italian cardinal, diplomat, and politician, who served as the chief minister of France from 1642, succeeding his mentor, Cardinal Richelieu.
The death of Louis XIII ushered in the regency rule of Queen Anne of Austria, together she and Mazarin worked as close political partners attempting to stabilise a weak and vulnerable government. Ultimately this union would see the two targeted as unwanted foreign rulers during the unrest of the Fronde that called for their removal from power. Mazarin continued, despite attacks on both his character and politics, to conduct foreign policy thus establishing France's supremacy among the European powers, effecting both the Peace of Westphalia (1648) that saw the end of the Thirty Years War, and the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659) that brought peace with Habsburg Spain.
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The death of Louis XIII ushered in the regency rule of Queen Anne of Austria, together she and Mazarin worked as close political partners attempting to stabilise a weak and vulnerable government. Ultimately this union would see the two targeted as unwanted foreign rulers during the unrest of the Fronde that called for their removal from power. Mazarin continued, despite attacks on both his character and politics, to conduct foreign policy thus establishing France's supremacy among the European powers, effecting both the Peace of Westphalia (1648) that saw the end of the Thirty Years War, and the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659) that brought peace with Habsburg Spain.
