MARQUEZ (Jean, translated by VIRION Didier) - L'homme d'esta - Lot 609

MARQUEZ (Jean, translated by VIRION Didier) - L'homme d'estat chrestien, tiré des vies de Moyse et Josué, princes du peuple de Dieu par maistre, frère Jean Marquez, religieux de l'ordre de Saint Augustin, Prédicateur ordinaire de Sa Majesté Catholique et Professeur de théologie en l'Université de Salamanque, traduit d'espagnol en françois par le sieur D. Virion, conseiller d'Estat de Son Altesse et Secretaire de ses commandemens et finances. Nancy, Par Iacob Garnich, imprimeur ordinaire & iuré de ladite Altesse, 1621; in-folio, 10 ppnch. + 354 + 346 pp. in full calf fanfare binding entirely decorated with iron, bearing the Averton arms (17th-century Brittany, Olivier, Hermal, Rotton), smooth ornate spine, gilt edges. Extremely rare book, of which only 3 complete copies of volumes I & II are known. Beautiful copperplate engraving with the coat of arms of Lorraine on the title page of the first volume, and with the coat of arms of Marguerite de Gonzague, wife of Henri II, on the second volume. Didier Virion seigneur de They, a distinguished and cultivated diplomat, had, when representing Duke Henri II of Lorraine in Spain from 1616 to 1622, translated into French the then famous book by an Augustinian from Salamanca, Jean Marquez, L'homme d'Etat chrétien. In it, he asserted the primacy of spiritual power, the need to return to religious unity and, consequently, the duty to pursue the crusade against the infidel. Tavenaux writes: "In Lorraine, the spirit of the Ligueur survived the historic destiny of the Holy Union: when Henri IV was accepted by France as its true King, the Lorraine princes increasingly turned to Spain and the Empire for support, and even more so for an ideal. Spanish influences penetrated Lorraine in large numbers at the beginning of the 16th century, determining many aspects of spirituality". Beaupré page 373. Consultant: Mr. Philippe HENRY