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[FETE BOOK] HOGENBERG, NICOLAUS. Gratae et laboribus aequae posteritati. Caesareas sanctique patris longo ordine turmas aspice. [Antwerp]: Hondius, 1610. Third edition, without the cartouches and with the plates measuring 33 to 33.5 x 30 cm (the "Divo" plate without Hondius' imprint, which appeared in the fourth edition). 19th century paste paper over boards, calf spine. 14.25 x 12 inches (36.5 x 30.5 cm); 36 [of 40] engraved plates by Hogenberg. Binding worn, partially disbound. Plates toned, lacking four as noted above, many tissue restorations to the lower margins . One of the finest of the fete books of the period, this records the triumphant procession of Charles V (1500-1558), Clement VII, and all the nobility of the Spanish empire, following Charles' coronation as Holy Roman Emperor at Bologna on 22 February 1530. The coronation was the culmination of the festivities and celebrations that had begun upon Charles' triumphant entry into Bologna on the 6th of December 1529. "Two crowns were placed upon Charles' head that day in San Petronio - the iron crown of the Kingdom of Italy, brought from Monza and hastily enlarged because it was too tight, and the crown of the Holy Roman Empire. Universal peace was eagerly and hypocritically declared; then it was time for the banquet... In the middle of the piazza 'a whole ox was there for the taking, complete with head and very long horns, stuffed with a wether, itself stuffed with chickens, capons, partridges, pheasants, pigeons, hares, thrushes and pigs, also whole; and because no one could turn it, they had devised certain winches, turned by various lansquenets who were standing around'" (Guadalupi). Brunet III, 250; Lipperheide Si4; Mitchell, Italian Civic Pageantry in the High Renaissance , p. 21 ('none of the early editions seen'); Gianni Guadalupi "Bologna, 6 December 1529", FMR Magazine, number 22, pages 121-142; Vinet 553. C