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BORJA Y ARAGON, Francisco de, Prince of Squillance and Viceroy of Peru (1581-1658). Napoles Recuperada por el Rei Don Alonso . Saragossa: en el Real y General Hospital de nuestra Señora de Gracia, 1651. 4° (197 x 142mm). Engraved title by Juan de Noort half-title, printed title-page, decorative head- and tailpieces. (Very slight wear at edges of engraved title, very light dampstaining in some quires.) Contemporary limp vellum, ties. Provenance : Solis (lettered on engraved title). FIRST EDITION. Palau 33126. ARGENSOLA, Lupercio (1559-1613) and Bartholomé Leonardo (1562-1631) de. Rimas . Saragossa: en el Hospital Real i General de nuestra Señora de Gracia, 1634. 4° (203 x 142mm). (Occasional very light marginal dampstaining, without the frontispiece found in some copies.) Contemporary limp vellum. Second edition. Palau 16102. SUAREZ DE FIGUEROA, Christoval (1571?-1644). Varias Noticias Importantes a la Humana Comunicación . Madrid: Tomas Junte, 1621. 4° (199 x 145mm). Engraved coat-of-arms on title. (Some very light browning or spotting at end, tiny wormhole in first several leaves touching an occasional letter.) Contemporary limp vellum. Provenance : early manuscript index on front free endpaper and occasional marginal annotation. FIRST EDITION. Palau 323918; Salva 2006. Three important works of Spanish literature. The first two volumes are by the main proponents of the Aragonese school of poetry. Led by the Argensola brothers, the school opposed the prevailing culteranismo with its artificial style, classical allusion and Latinate syntax, in preference for a more natural and sober style. Francisco Borja was a friend and ally of the Argensolas, and his epic poem celebrated the 15th-century conquest of Naples by his ancestor, Alonso V of Aragon. Suarez's collection of 20 essays on various subjects joins his earlier important pastoral novel, El Passagero , as a biting record of contemporary Spanish society. (3)