Travel - GÖLNITZ (Abraham). Ulysses Belgico-Gallicus, fidus - Lot 55

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Travel - GÖLNITZ (Abraham). Ulysses Belgico-Gallicus, fidus - Lot 55
Travel - GÖLNITZ (Abraham). Ulysses Belgico-Gallicus, fidus tibi dux and Achates, per Belgium hispan. regnum Galliæ, ducat. Sabaudiæ, Turinum usque Pedemonti metropolin. Amsterdam, Elzevier, 1631, petit in-12, [8, dont tire-frontispice]-671-[43] p., full vellum of the time (missing the white front guard f., crushed leg. corners, traces of manipulation, worm work in the inferior external corner of the first 100 f. with loss of letters). First and rare Elzevirian edition, decorated with an attractive copper-engraved title-frontispiece. Abraham Gölnitz's journey was not properly dated before the work of Léon Malavialle in 1908. By assigning its exact chronology to the journey (from 11 May 1624 to 15 June 1626), it becomes possible to appreciate the accuracy of the account, which is punctuated with references to the history of the French Reformation. In connection with the cultivated elites at the court of Duke Jean-Christian de Legnica-Brzeg in Silesia, Gölnitz made his book a proposal for a formative journey for his sons, Georges (20) and Louis (15). He achieved this by adding two events after his visit to France: the siege of La Rochelle (1628) and the assassination of the governor of Orange (1630), which turned out to be references to the duke's eschatological culture. The reminder of the Silesian political and cultural context at the beginning of the Thirty Years' War reveals this link. (Philippe Maurfan, "Calvinist Itineraries in Europe at the beginning of the Thirty Years' War: Abraham Gölnitz in his time", in Seventeenth Century, no. 280, 2018, pp. 533-550).
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