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By Noel Malcolm

Acclaimed author and historian Noel Malcolm offers his sensational discovery of a brand new paintings by means of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg aspect within the Thirty Years' battle, translated by way of Hobbes from a Latin unique. Malcolm's e-book explores a desirable episode in seventeenth-century background, illuminating either the perform of early sleek propaganda and the speculation of "reason of state".

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The Hague, 1889–1920), i, part 1, p. 579, no. 3037, where the printer is tentatively identified as Abraham Verhoeven in Antwerp. Some copies of this translation (including BL pressmark T. 2250 (29)) contain an item not present in the original The ‘Secretissima instructio’ Texts 39 appeared, consisting of the first nineteen sections (the first part of the text, containing the analysis rather than the policy recommendations). ²⁵ And, in addition to these translations, the Latin text of the Secretissima instructio would also be reprinted in 1621, 1626, and 1627.

224); section 10 (at n. 118); the last correction here may already have been made by a copyist. ³⁵ See section 7 (at n. 71). ³⁶ See below, Ch. 4 n. 34. 3 The ‘Secretissima instructio’ Texts W sort of text, then, was the Altera secretissima instructio, and why was it thought so worthy of attention? It was in fact the third in a sequence of pamphlets (though its title, Altera . . , correctly translated by Hobbes as ‘A second . ’, suggests that its author was unaware of the second in the sequence); the first, entitled Secretissima instructio, had achieved considerable notoriety, becoming one of Europe’s most widely read works of political propaganda after its first publication in 1620.

Comiti Palatino electori data, ex gallico conversa, ac bono publico in lucem evulgata; one edition, however, gives Frederick’s title as ‘Friderico I. ¹² Since the work purported to be a piece of sympathetic advice written by the Elector Palatine’s tutor and confidant, it seems likely that the version using the royal title was the original printing, and that the others were produced by publishers in pro-Imperial territories who baulked at appearing, even fictitiously, to acknowledge his claim to the throne.

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