Pratica de merecer, y aumentar el tesoro inestimable de la gracia, con las obras que haze el Christiano justo. Con Privilegio.
1621
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Pratica de merecer, y aumentar el tesoro inestimable de la gracia, con las obras que haze el Christiano justo. Con Privilegio.
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Madrid : Por Juan Fernandez, en la Carreterial, 1621.
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pièces limin., 80 ff., figure gr. ; In-(8vo)
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FAST ACC 271687 (quarto)
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Bound with Bib 366848 Purchase made possible by The Kathrine Dulin Folger and Family Acquisitions Endowment. From dealer's description: "Salas Barbadillo, Alonso Geronimo: [Pallas, Martin:] Los triumfos de la Beata Soror Juana de la Cruz, en verso heroyco. A Doña Policena Palavezino Fiesco. [Bound with:] Pratica de merecer, y aumentar el tesoro inestimable de la gracia, con las obras que haze el Christiano justo. Con Privilegio. En Madrid, por la viuda de Cosme Delgado [Con licencia, en Murcia, por Juan Fernandez, en la Carreteria]. 1621 [1642]. 2 works in 1 vol., 8vo. (15 cms. x 10.5 cms.), fols. [8] 80; 32. Woodcut vignettes to title-pages. Light or medium browning to first work, bound in early vellum, back pastedown and endpaper from a page of accounts, with dates from 1685 and references to one Juan Cassañas (front pastedown and endpaper plain and with early MS shelfmark). Interesting copy of this rare life in heroic verse of the Franciscan abbess and licensed preacher Juana de la Cruz Vázquez y Gutiérrez (1485-1534). The copy possibly contains evidence about the market in works on religious women. Juana is remembered for running away from a prospective marriage, dressed as a man. This episode is brought up at the start of the present poem, with an echo of the 'Aeneid': "I sing of the triumphs of the most valiant virgin, always at war and never defeated, martyr of love, in whose flight is found glory foretold and anticipated". At the end of the life of the abbess (fol. 77 verso) there is a woodcut of St. Francis of Assisi receiving stigmata, which is followed by a separate work on the subject of St. Francis, running over five pages. Alonso Salas Barbadillo (1581-1635), the author was an important novelist, playwright and poet, and it is very interesting that he wrote this verse life of this abbess. A search in CCPB of the publisher of the second title in this volume (a later work of theology which we have not otherwise located) shows, coming its press in Murcia (Juan Fernandez or his widow), nine publications, all religious, of which four concern the examples of religious women. These last may then have been a signature line of the Fernandez business. Perhaps the fact that the two works are bound together shows that the Fernandez business was selling or acquiring copies of Salas Barbadillo's poem as another title in this area. The 'Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature' notes on Salas Barbadillo, "a complete edition of the works of this engaging satirist is still awaited, to restore him to the high reputation he justly enjoyed during his lifetime". His friends included Miguel de Cervantes, imitators included Molière and Scarron, and he is even credited with writing the first true Spanish imitation of Boccaccio's 'Decamerone'. Neither work in CCPB. First work: IB 59245, Palau 286240; OCLC (07/16) shows copies at BNE and BNF. Second work: not in Palau or indeed in OCLC."|Ordered from Leo Cadogan Rare Books Ltd, D9353, 2019-10-07, Cat. October 2019, item 57.