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.

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.

Order-nr.: 49632