Avisos de Italia, Flandes, Roma, Portugal, y Otras Partes, desde 28 de Julio, hasta 3 de Agosto deste año de 625.
1625
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Avisos de Italia, Flandes, Roma, Portugal, y Otras Partes, desde 28 de Julio, hasta 3 de Agosto deste año de 625.
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Sevilla, 1625.
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FAST ACC 271186 (folio)
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From dealer's description: "FIRST EDITION. Folio. 2 unnumbered ll., A2. Decorated initial. Faint oil stain. Excellent copy in patterned paper wrappers, ‘93’ and ‘94’ inked to upper outer corners. Remarkably preserved copy of this ephemeral C17 publication—an issue of a very early Spanish periodical. Following the establishment of gazette-type publications in northern Europe catering for the appetite for international news among the middle classes, similar periodicals appeared in Barcelona and Seville, often entitled ‘Avisos’, featuring news from abroad (Ettinghausen, ‘The Golden Age’, 249-50). Such periodicals were mostly concerned with news from Europe and the New World but also featured short accounts of important events in Spain. This copy covers the week July 28-August 3 1625 and events which happened in Spain, Italy, Flanders, Portugal and England. The headline news was that, on July 29, the Bishop who accompanied Henrietta Maria to her meeting with her future husband, Charles I, had said a mass in London which attracted no less than 600 people. There follows a bull-fighting festival organized at court, in which noblemen like the Count of Coruña y Cantillana took part as ‘toreadores’. On the 30th, Don Diego de Guzman met the King probably to discuss his appointment as Archbishop of Seville a few months later. On the 31st, the King heard a sermon by the Jesuit Francisco Pimentel for the celebrations of St Ignatius. On August 1, some legates from Rome and Genoa and from the Duke of Feria arrived to report on the Pope’s request and updates on the army’s movements in Italy. There is also a brief account of ships arriving in Portugal from Brazil, escorted by Dutch vessels, and the celebrations of the feast of St Isabel, Queen of Portugal, with fireworks. On the 3rd, financial help was reported as having been sent by the King to support the army in Germany during the Anglo-Spanish war. Intended for wide circulation and eventually discarded, these periodicals brought to bigger and smaller Spanish localities news of dramatic events like the Thirty Years’ War. They were also read orally to family members or small communities; so powerful were they that their reading was forbidden in several monasteries where they easily caused discord between monks coming from different countries (Amagat, ‘Things Worth of Being Known’, 260-65). A scarce relic of the dawn of the periodical press. Only 4 copies recorded, none in the US. USTC 5002829; Sánchez Alonso 219; Simón Díaz 1768. Not in Palau. R.E. Amagat, ‘“Things Worthy of Being Known”: The Reception and Consuption of the Press in Catalonia During the First Half of the 17th Century’ and H. Ettinghausen, ‘The Golden Age of the Single Event Printed Newsletter’, in A Maturing Market, ed. A.S. Wilkinson and A.U. Lorenzo (Leiden, 2017), 241-58 and 258-76" Purchase made possible by The B. F. Saul Rare Book Acquisitions Fund. Ordered from Sokol Books Ltd. D9302, 2019-05-14, email quote.