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Essortatione efficacissima alli principi Christiani contra gl’Infedeli, &c.

[Unknown]

...Italian manuscript, with watermark of coat of arms displaying bird, untrimmed, in wrappers. Probably composed during the pontificate of Gregory XIII (1572-1585), who spared no efforts to further an expedition against the Turks, and who sent...

Emboscadas tragicas e relaçam lastimosa em que se refere a vida, acçoens heroicas, e cruel morte, que os Mouros sem nenhuma piedade deraõ no reyno de Galiza, a Dario Lobondo Alexandrino / por Antonio da Silva, mestre de Grammatica.

Antonio da Silva

...A fictional account of a pilgrimage made by one Dario Lobondo of Alexandria to Santiago de Compostela. On arriving in Galicia, Dario finds himself caught up in a battle between the Christian king of Galicia and the Moorish king of Spain...

Oratio ab illustrissimo ad sedem pontificiam legato Cæsareo, Principe de Liechtenstein, Romæ in Consistorio, a. 1691, 12. Febr. proposita.

Anton Florian, Liechtenstein, Fürst

...A speech delivered to the consistory by Anton Florian, Count of Lichtenstein, the Imperial Ambassador to the Vatican, on 12 February 1691, exhorting the cardinals to elect a successor to Pope Alexander VIII, who had died on 1 February, ‘cum...

Eyn sendbrieff an Babst Adrianu[m] : darinn mit Christenlichen warhafftigem grundt angezaygt wirt ein sicherer haylsamer weg zu auszreuttung aller kerzereyen, und zu haylsamer rettung gantzer Christianhait von des Turcken tyranney / von Hartmudt von Cronbergk.

Hartmut, von Cronberg

...It is one of the literary initiatives to unite the Christian forces against the Ottoman threat. It is published in 1523, in the aftermath of Süleyman I's conquest of Belgrade in 1521. That was harbinger of his major campaign against...

The natural history of Aleppo and parts adjacent : containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood; together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases, particularly of the plague with the methods used by the Europeans for their preservation / by Alex. Russel.

Alexander Russell

...The first edition, by Alexander Russell, a Scottish physician to the Levant Company in Aleppo, appeared in a single volume in 1756. In 1740, Russell was appointed to the English Factory (trading center) in Aleppo, where he became the chief...

Epistola domini Marci Maruli Spalatensis ad Adrianum, VI, pont. max. de calamitatibus occurentibus, et exhortatio ad communem omnium Christianorum unionem et pacem.

Marko Marulić

...First edition of this appeal to Pope Adrian VI written from Split in the aftermath of the capture of Belgrade by Suleiman I in August 1521. "Our towns and villages are in flames," he writes, "the crops ruined...our churches have been turned...

Rede, so er gegen dem aller-Christlichsten Konig über den Turckischen Krieg zu Marsal den 31 Augusti lauffenden 1663, Jahre soll gehalten haben.

Turenne, Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne, vicomte de

...A speech persuading Louis XIV to join European efforts at fighting the Turks, spuriously attributed to the most famous of seventeenth-century military leaders and actually a piece of German propaganda against French relations...