Idea de un principe politico christiano, representada en cien empresas - Saavedra Fajardo, Diego de 1584-1648 (Amsterdam Janssonius, 1664)
Diego de Saavedra Fajardo (1584-1648) was a Spanish diplomat and man of letters.
in 1640 Saavedra published the anti-Machiavellian emblem book Empresas Políticas. Idea de un príncipe político cristiano, a hundred short essays about the education of a prince. This work was written primarily for the son of King Philip IV. It passed through a number of editions and was translated in several languages.
Saavedra's 'Idea de un príncipe político cristiano' was a very erudite work that uses the literary sort of emblem, put by Andrea Alciato with his 'Emblemata' translated in 1549 and that has a mainly moral and philosophical character. His work, however, was mainly inspired by the 'Emblemata política' (1618), by Jakob Bruck Angermunt, being the intention of the author to compose a guide for the suitable political formation of a Christian prince.
Originally published in 1640
Ex bibliotheca Schol. Piar. Vienna in Widen 1756 (manuscript); from library of a pious school in ViennaEx libris Dr. Hofmeier Dortmund (stamp)
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