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RIBADENEIRA, PEDRO DE, S.J. Tratado de la Religion y Virtudes que deve tener el Principe Christiano, para governar y conserver sus Estados. 437, [11] pages, including penultimate leaf with colophon and printer's device, and final blank. 8vo, 187x114 mm, 17th-century mottled calf with gilt arms on covers, unidentified though with arms of Aragon, Navarre, and Aragon-Sicily in chief, expertly rebacked retaining original backstrip; contents browned with occasional underscoring and minor marginal stains. Antwerp: en la Emprenta Plantiniana, 1597
Second edition of an anti-Machiavellian guide to conduct for Christian princes, first published in 1595 in Madrid. Palau 266334; Peeters-Fontainas 1123.
