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Esprit FLECHIER

Histoire du cardinal Ximenès

Chez Jean Anisson, à Paris 1693, In-4 (20x26,5cm), (4) XVIII 659pp. (16), relié.

first edition, rare, decorated with a portrait frontispiece and illustrated Delinck 6 headbands title and 6 tailpieces by Sébastien Le Clerc. Make the title page printer, the lily of Florence.
Bound in full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back with nerves decorated. part of title in red morocco. Caps and joint in the head and tail restored. Coins bare.
The work appeared just days after the History of Ximenez de Marsolier and whose comparison sparked controversy until the nineteenth century. While the work of Fléchier tends to illustrate the holiness of the Cardinal, that of Marsolier, more critical, is for "libertines, that party philosophers who began to raise his head." religious re and politician, Ximenes (Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros) was appointed Grand Inquisitor of Spain and governor of Castile; he showed great temperance in its administration of the Inquisition and its policy towards mores. Originally a Franciscan monk, not forgetting its origins, he held out a thorough reform of the clergy to more moral. He died in 1517 after being shown on all fronts, teaching, politics ... It is one of the major figures in the history of Spain from the late fifteenth century.

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