Vida, Sucesos Prosperos Y Adversos De Fr[ay] D[on] Bartholome De Carranza Y Miranda, Arçobispo De Toledo, Primado Delas Espanas, Cançiller Maior Delos Reinos De Castilla … [etc.]
Resumen del Libro
Collection of works from late 16th- to early 17th-century Spain by various authors. The major work is a biography of Bartolomé Carranza, Archbishop of Toledo, centering on his seventeen-year imprisonment by the Spanish Inquisition. The manuscript also includes copies of two letters written by Philip IV, King of Spain, to his favorite, Gaspar de Guzmán, conde-duque de Olivares, a letter from Francisco Sandoval y Rojas, duque de Lerma, to Philip IV upon the latters ascension to the throne, a discourse on the nature of life and death by a certain Padre Maestro Guerra, a biography of Rodrigo Calderón, Marquis de las Siete Iglesias and a Spanish royal favorite, a report on an unnamed resolution of the Pope and the opinion of a religious council convened by the king, Francisco de Melgars censure of a paper written by Francisco Morovelli de Puebla defending the patronage of Saint Teresa of Avila and responding to Francisco de Quevedo, and several small satirical works by Francisco de Quevedo. Of particular interest are the references Philip IV makes to his illegitimate son, Alonso, born in 1642 (f.122v).
