Poema heroico, Napoles recuperada por El Rei Don Alonso que dedica a la Magestad del Rei nuestro señor Don Felipe Quarto El Grande.

Zaragoza, Hospital R., y General de N.S. a Gracia, 1651.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, later stiff vellum, green morocco label, text block edges sprinkled red. Double ruled border on each page. Large woodcut initials. Small paper defect at foot of half-title. Minor marginal worming touching border and running heads, and affecting 3-4 letters of text per page on Xx1-Ddd3. Tissue repair, without loss, on Ddd3. Overall in slightly less than good condition. Engraved title-page, (16 ll.), 398 pp. *** FIRST EDITION of an epic poem celebrating the mid-fifteenth century conquest of Naples by the author's ancestor Alfonso V of Aragon. it was reprinted in 1658. This particular poem is noteworthy as an example of a rare genre and a precursor of eighteenth-century poetry, rather than as a thrilling narrative: Ticknor comments that the author aimed to conform to the safest epic models, but says Napoles recuperada "seems to foreshadow some of the severe and impoverishing doctrines of the next century of Spanish literature, and is written with a squeamish nicety in the versification that still further impairs its spirit" (II, 501-2). Some copies have an additional errata leaf at the end.Borja y Aragon, who descended from the Borgia family as well as the royal house of Aragon, was Prince of Squillace in Italy.*** Palau 33126: calling for a half-title, engraved title, 16 ll., 398 pp., (1 l.). Simón Díaz V, 4998: calling for (16 ll.), 398 pp. [his list of the contents of the preliminary leaves corresponds with this copy]; noting 6 copies in Spain and one at the British Library. Gallardo 1437: calling for 417 ll. [sic]. Jimenez Catalán, Tipografia zaragozana 566. Goldsmith, Short Title Catalogue of Spanish and Portuguese Books 1601-1700 in the Library of the British Museum B286. Salvá 595: calling for 17 ll., including the engraved title and the half-title, 398 pp. and 1 l. errata. Ward, Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature p. 73. Ticknor, Spanish Literature II, 501-2. OCLC: EQO, EYW. NUC adds copies at MiU, MiDW, MH, WU, IU, ICU, and NNH.