{"product_id":"ribadeneyra-pedro-de","title":"RIBADENEYRA, Pedro de","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe gilt arms belong to the Catalan patriot Josep de Margarit i de Biure (1602-85), member of a baronial family from Girona. Josep fought as a general of the Catalan army siding with the French against Spanish aggression into Catalan territory. For his support, he was appointed governor of Catalonia by Louis XIII. In particular, he played a major part in the Catalan  revolta dels Segadors  (1640-52) which concluded with the capitulation of Barcelona to Spain after a dramatic siege. As a reward for his courage, his Aguilar estate was turned into a marquisate by Louis XIV. Josep spent the last years of his life in exile in Perpignan where he continued to defend Catalan identity in Roussillon, annexed to France with the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659). The bearing of the arms of Catalonia, Navarre and Aragon-Sicily had been granted by King Juan II to Josep s C15 ancestor, the bishop Juan Margarit, as a reward for his defence of the city of Girona. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n The C17 annotator of this copy interested in the long  letter to the Christian reader  may have been Josep de Margarit himself. In a section discussing the reasons why a prince might want to continue a war through violence or political pressure, he highlighted a passage stating that  in order to destroy any city or province without a war, there is nothing like presenting them as places full of sin and vice, and to persuade [his subjects] that past injuries are never forgotten, despite the benefits received . \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Very good, clean, well-margined copy of this intriguing anti-Machiavellian Jesuit work in Castilian. This is the fourth edition published by the Antwerp printer Jan Moretus, who held the royal privilege for some of the most successful liturgical works of the Counter- Reformation. Born and raised in Toledo, Pedro de Ribadeneyra (1527-1611) was admitted to the Jesuit order in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola, of whom he would later write the first biography. After studying theology and rhetoric at Leuven, Paris and Padua, he taught at Italian and German Jesuit colleges, was sent on missions to Belgium and England by Ignatius himself and held important posts in Italy. Dedicated to Philip II of Spain,  Tratado  presented Machiavelli s ideal Christian prince as a misleading model contrived by an impious and godless  politician  a member of  the worst sect invented by Satan  to destroy piety, virtue and godly fear. He opposed the Machiavellian belief that history and  reason of state  were shaped by fortune, not religion and virtue, explaining how religion and  reason of state  were instead inseparable, and how a true Christian prince should defend the Catholic faith whilst piously administering government. The second part explores the fundamental concept of dissimulation a feigned  mask of virtue  which Machiavelli s prince should sometimes wear. Ribadeneira condemned dissimulation as a sin except for good reasons, e.g., maintaining secrecy for the sake of political prudence a behaviour equally adopted by Jesuits through  equivocation , an ironically near-Machiavellian variation of dissimulation used to escape persecution.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RIBADENEYRA, Pedro de","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816153162063,"sku":"L2289","price":2750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L2289-1-1.jpg?v=1781794928","url":"https:\/\/sokol-books-ltd.myshopify.com\/products\/ribadeneyra-pedro-de","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}