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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ex Libris, post: 4452690, member: 14916&quot;]I really like to research my old paper, so I started looking into this book. A question that really puzzles me is: &quot;Why is a book, written in Spanish about a ruler in Central Europe is printed in Antwerp?&quot; That does not really sound logical to me. One hint I found in the book is the attribution of the book to Don Luis de Borja (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Borgia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Borgia" rel="nofollow">Borgia</a>) y Centellas&quot;. Together with a copper engraving of his family crest, a long list of his titles are printed and there is still an et cetera at the end <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /></p><p>This is the Spanish part of the Borgia family. The BBC TV-series &quot;The Borgias&quot; is about the part in Italy in the 16th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>The last title on the list is (what I understand of the Spanish) &quot;Governador de Districto Amberes&quot;, what I read as &quot;Governor of the Antwerp District&quot;.&nbsp; In the early 18th century current Belgium was called the Spanish Netherlands. So this book was likely printed for their own governor (that happen to be a Spanish nobleman). Maybe Don Luis ordered the book.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is particular difficult to find information about Antwerp in this period. After the closing of the river <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheldt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheldt" rel="nofollow">Scheldt</a> (Schelde in Dutch) in the late 16th century (1585) and thereby closing it&#039;s important harbor, the economy collapsed and ended Antwerp&#039;s golden age.&nbsp; This economic turmoil would last until 1792, when the Scheldt was reopened, just after the French Revolution (1789). This results in a kind of dark ages of information.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]383416[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Coat of Arms of the Borgia family, with a red bull.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]383417[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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