Item #2751 Las felicidades de España y del Mundo Christiano, aplauso Panegirico en la Publica, y real aclamacion de la magestad de Rey n. S. Carlos II. Compuesto en dos lenguas Castellana y Italiana por el Doctor D. Geronimo Basilico, Siciliano Mesines, Abogado en los Reales Consejos de Castilla. Consagrado a ala Magestad de la Reyna nuestra Señora. Con licencia. Geronimo Basilico.
Las felicidades de España y del Mundo Christiano, aplauso Panegirico en la Publica, y real aclamacion de la magestad de Rey n. S. Carlos II. Compuesto en dos lenguas Castellana y Italiana por el Doctor D. Geronimo Basilico, Siciliano Mesines, Abogado en los Reales Consejos de Castilla. Consagrado a ala Magestad de la Reyna nuestra Señora. Con licencia.
Early Engraved Portraits of Charles II and Mariana of Austria

Las felicidades de España y del Mundo Christiano, aplauso Panegirico en la Publica, y real aclamacion de la magestad de Rey n. S. Carlos II. Compuesto en dos lenguas Castellana y Italiana por el Doctor D. Geronimo Basilico, Siciliano Mesines, Abogado en los Reales Consejos de Castilla. Consagrado a ala Magestad de la Reyna nuestra Señora. Con licencia.

En Madrid: por Pablo de Val, 1666. First edition. In later half clot. ff [8] 30., and two engraved plates. The first plate (frontispiece) with a fingermark at the lower outer corner, numbered on top in ink. Small tear on the upper margin of the title page. Old notes in pencil on the title page. Small closed tears to the first leaves at the lower gutter. Otherwise in fine condition.

Scarce panegyric on the occasion of the acclamation of Charles II of Spain, with two fine allegoric engravings with the portraits of Charles and Mariana of Austria.

With dedicatory and laudation texts and poems to Charles II of Spain and his mother Queen Regent Mariana of Austria.

The portraits are one of the earliest surviving engravings of Charles II and Mariana of Austria (López-Cordón, 1998). The one with the portrait of the young King is the earliest example of the depiction of the two orbs as an allusion to the two parts of the world, the union between the Old and the New World held by the Spanish Crown (Rodríguez Moya, 2012). In this allegorical portrait, the bust of Charles is placed in the upper center, within a border of laurels and palms, surrounded by the allegoric images of Europe, Asia, America, and Africa. Beneath the portrait, a childlike Hercules, covered in lion skin, holds two spheres crowned with crosses and with the phylactery Oneri par (Charge with two).

Scarce IB (68893) lists only seven copies, in the UK (2), Spain (3), France (1), and Austria (1). Literature: López-Cordón, M. V. (1998). Mujer, poder y apariencia o las vicisitudes de la regencia. Studia Histórica. Historia Moderna, no. 19, pp. 49–66.; Rodríguez Moya, , I. (2012). Dos son uno. Los orbes en el discurso iconográfico de la unión entre España y América (1808–1821). Sémata: Ciencias Sociais E Humanidades, (24). Retrieved from https://revistas.usc.gal/index.php/semata/article/view/1095.

Price: €3,000.00

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