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(FARNESE, Odoardo, Duke of Parma and Castro). Vera e sincera Relazione delle Raggioni del Duca di Parma contra la presente occupazione del Ducato di Castro. [Parma?: 1642].
2° (335 x 228mm). Text in 2 columns, woodcut historiated and foliate initials. (Very small, light stain on 2 leaves.) 17th-century maroon morocco gilt with Aldobrandini arms in central large oval, surrounded by an arabesque border incorporating also beasts and flowers and other small tools, single cinquefoil in spine compartments, evidence of 2 fore-edge ties, gilt edges. Provenance: Aldobrandini family (arms on sides); Hans Furstenberg (purple paper booklabel).
The Relazione appears to have been privately printed for Odoado Farnese, as part of his strategy to reclaim the Duchy of Castro from Pope Urban VIII. Farnese had pledged his Duchy as collateral for loans made to him by the Papal Mont di Pietà, and suffered heavy financial losses due to his involvement in the Franco-Spanish wars. Urban VIII foreclosed on the loan in order to give it to a nephew, and Farnese began a long, but eventually successful, campaign, supported by France and Venice, to reclaim it. The Relazione sets forth Farnese's case, and presumably would have been distributed to powerful and influential families, such as the Aldobrandini, for whom the present copy was sumptuously bound, to enlist their support. RARE, no other copy has been traced.
2° (335 x 228mm). Text in 2 columns, woodcut historiated and foliate initials. (Very small, light stain on 2 leaves.) 17th-century maroon morocco gilt with Aldobrandini arms in central large oval, surrounded by an arabesque border incorporating also beasts and flowers and other small tools, single cinquefoil in spine compartments, evidence of 2 fore-edge ties, gilt edges. Provenance: Aldobrandini family (arms on sides); Hans Furstenberg (purple paper booklabel).
The Relazione appears to have been privately printed for Odoado Farnese, as part of his strategy to reclaim the Duchy of Castro from Pope Urban VIII. Farnese had pledged his Duchy as collateral for loans made to him by the Papal Mont di Pietà, and suffered heavy financial losses due to his involvement in the Franco-Spanish wars. Urban VIII foreclosed on the loan in order to give it to a nephew, and Farnese began a long, but eventually successful, campaign, supported by France and Venice, to reclaim it. The Relazione sets forth Farnese's case, and presumably would have been distributed to powerful and influential families, such as the Aldobrandini, for whom the present copy was sumptuously bound, to enlist their support. RARE, no other copy has been traced.