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CAMPANELLA (THOMAS)
Thomas Campanella, an Italian Friar and Second Machiavel. His Advice to the King of Spain for Attaning the Universal Monarchy of the World. Particularly Concerning England... Thereby Embroiling England in Civil War to Divert the English from Disturbing the Spaniard in Bringing Indian Treasure into Spain... with an Admonitorie Preface by William Prynne

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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CAMPANELLA (THOMAS)

Thomas Campanella, an Italian Friar and Second Machiavel. His Advice to the King of Spain for Attaning the Universal Monarchy of the World. Particularly Concerning England... Thereby Embroiling England in Civil War to Divert the English from Disturbing the Spaniard in Bringing Indian Treasure into Spain... with an Admonitorie Preface by William Prynne, translated by Edmund Chilmead, light soiling to title, modern green crushed morocco [Wing C400; Sabin 10199], small 4to, Philemon Stephens, [1660]

Footnotes

A translation of De monarchia Hispanica discursus by Edmund Chilmead, with an introduction by William Prynne. "The views of Prynne, and those of Chilmead... were seriously at variance... while Prynne sought to explain why Campanella's principles had triumphed, Chilmead sought to explain why they had failed" (Lamont, Marginal Prynne, 1963).

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