Unhappy prosperity : expressed in the history of Ælius Seianus, and Philippa the Catanian. With Observations upon the fall of Sejanus. Lastly, Certain considerations upon the life and services of Monsieur Villeroy
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Type of record: Book
Title: Unhappy prosperity : expressed in the history of Ælius Seianus, and Philippa the Catanian. With Observations upon the fall of Sejanus. Lastly, Certain considerations upon the life and services of Monsieur Villeroy
Other titles: Aelius Sejanus, histoire romaine
Classmark: BC Lt d MAT
Creator(s): Matthieu, Pierre (1563-1621)
Additional creator(s): T. H, Sir (1640) (Other); Manzini, Giovanni Battista (1599-1664) (Other); Matthieu, Pierre (1563-1621) (Other)
Related people: Sejanus, Lucius Aelius, -31; Villeroi, Nicolas de Neufville, duc de, 1597-1685; Concini, Concino, maréchal d'Ancre, approximately 1575-1617
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Harper, and are to be sold by Nicholas Vavasour
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1639
Language: English
Size and medium: 10 unnumbered pages, 475, that is, 479 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 481-582 pages, 1 plate
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/270767
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017972519705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Running title: Unhappie prosperitie.
First published in Rouen in 1618 under title Aelius Sejanus, histoire romaine.
Supposed to have been written to represent the rise and fall of Concino Concini, maréchal d'Ancre, assassinated 1617, and of his wife Leonora Dori Galigai.
The first English translation, published under the initials P.M. with title The powerful favorite..., 1628, is said to have been intended as a satire on George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham. Cf. NUC pre-1956, v. 370, p. 61.
Certain considerations upon the life and services of Monsieur Villeroy is a translation of Matthieu's Remarques d'estat et d'histoire, sur la vie et les services de monsieur de Villeroy.
Signatures: A⁶ B-Z12 2A-2B12 2C⁶.
Pages 69-72 repeated in pagination.
Unhappy prosperity, or, Philippa the Catanian, Observations upon the fall of Seianus, and Considerations upon the life and services of Monsieur Villeroy each has special t.p.
Translator's epistle dedicatory signed Th. Hawkins; Author's dedication signed P. Mathieu.
Engraved frontispiece.
Part-titles counted in the signatures and pagination, except in the case of the "Consideration upon... Villeroy", the part-title to which is apparently not counted in the pagination.
Contents: Unhappy prosperity -- Unhappy prosperity, or, Philippa the Catanian / written in French by P. Matthieu, and translated into English by Sr. Th. Hawkins -- Observations upon the fall of Seianus / written in Italian by Gio. Baptista Manzini and translated into English by Sr. T. H. -- Considerations upon the life and services of Monsieur Villeroy / translated out of French by Sir T. H.
Indexed in: STC 17667.
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