Libertino (Clemente) [Melo (Francisco Manuel de)]

Historia de los Movimientos y Separacion de Cataluna, FIRST EDITION, B2 misbound, B8 blank margin repaired, lacking 3 leaves of preliminaries (half title and introduction), and final blank f., wormtrail to first 3 gatherings, modern blind tooled calf, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., rubbed, [Palau V, 130], 8vo, Paulo Graesbeeck, San Vicente (Lisbon), 1645.

*** Francisco Manuel de Melo (1608-1666) was a Portuguese soldier, diplomat, and courtier who won fame as a poet, moralist, historian, and literary critic in both the Spanish and Portuguese languages. At the outbreak of the Catalan rebellion he was chief of staff to the commander of the royal forces.