Historia di Fiandra del Cardinal Bentivoglio - Bentivoglio, Guido 1577-1644 (Venice Ciera, 1702)
Guido Bentivoglio d'Aragona was an Italian cardinal, statesman and historian. He was an ecclesiastical diplomat at the court of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella in the Habsburg Netherlands (1607-1615), Bentivoglio was considered a lover of art and music. Immediately after his arrival in Flanders, he had the organist and composer Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) come to Brussels from Ferrara, where he was a celebrated musician and, with Bentivoglio's help, published his madrigals in Antwerp in 1608. It is considered certain that Bentivoglio also had contact with the artists there, such as Rubens. Later, too, he favoured Flemish artists in particular, such as Anthonis van Dyck and François Duquesnoy Il Fiammingo, by whom he was portrayed.
The historical work Della guerra di Fiandra describes, in an eloquent style of great literary sophistication, the religious and civil wars in the Low Countries, which Bentivoglio observed with a keen eye, not only through direct experience during diplomatic missions there, but also through the direct involvement of no less than four brothers and two nephews.Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
originally published in Cologne 1632-1639
each volume includes an index
Originally published in 1635
Keywords: 17th Century (1601-1700); 18th Century (1701-1800); Military history; Flanders (Belgium)