Macchiavellizatio, qua unitorum animos dissociare nitentibus respondetur; in gratiam Dn. Archiepiscopi castissimae vitae, Petri Pazman succincté excerpta.

Peter Alvinczi (1570 - 1634)

Published by Saragossae, Excudebat Didacus Ibarra. (False printing press. Not specified.), 1621

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[Peter Alvinczi (1570 - 1634)]: Macchiavellizatio, qua unitorum animos dissociare nitentibus respondetur; in gratiam Dn. Archiepiscopi castissimae vitae, Petri Pazman succincté excerpta. Oratio parresiastica, qua auxilia a rege et ordinibus Ung. Petuntur habita Neo-Solii in Comitiis. Epistola Eucharii Martini Budissino-Lusatii ad celebrem Theologum, Dn. Matthiam Hoe ab Hoheneg, &c. Comitem Lateranensem, &c. Addita est Epistola Casp. Scioppii, in qua haereticos jure infelicibus lignis cremari concludit. Omnia horum temporum genio accomodata, lectu dignissima. Saragossae, 1621. Excudebat Didacus Ibarra. 35 p. A perfect copy in crude condition, folded sheet by sheet. Unique rarity in this (original) condition. - An outstanding piece of political literature of the period. It is an interesting document of European and Hungarian domestic politics of the time. Péter Alvinczi (1570-1634) was a Hungarian Reformed ecclesiastical and political writer. He was an adviser to István Bocskay and later to Gábor Bethlen. His most important political work is the anonymously published 'Machiavellianism'. The dispute between Tamás Balásfy and Alvinci was sparked off in the spring of 1620 by the anonymous pamphlet "Secretissima instructio", whose author can be traced back to Péter Pázmány. The text appears as if its 37 points were written for King Frederick V of Bohemia by a loyal follower of his, well versed in military and political matters. Its ultimate aim was to stir up strife between Gábor Bethlen and his allies and to discredit him. Alvinczi responds to this in 26 (wrongly 27) points, stressing that the pamphlet was essentially a Machiavellian machination. Machiavellianism was answered by Balásfy with his Castigatio, and then again by Alvinczi with his Resultatio. Alvinczi's writings are distinguished by his broad education and his ability to argue on the basis of clear logic, which makes him superior to his opponents' works, and he refutes his opponent's claims with ease.The first edition of the book was published in 1620 without indicating the place and printer, in fact in Festus' workshop in Kassa. From a literary point of view, this edition is more special: it was undoubtedly printed abroad, in a printing house as yet undetermined by the literature. Here, the main text is accompanied by a few smaller works. Perhaps the most interesting of these is a letter from the late humanist Scioppius to Conrad Ritterhusius, in which he gives an eyewitness account of Giordano Bruno's death at the stake. Seller Inventory # 36

Bibliographic Details

Title: Macchiavellizatio, qua unitorum animos ...

Publisher: Saragossae, Excudebat Didacus Ibarra. (False printing press. Not specified.)

Publication Date: 1621

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Very Good