Unhappy prosperity
Subtitle: expressed in the history of Aelius Sejanus, and Philippa the Catanian : with observations upon the fall of Sejanvs. : Lastly, certain considerations upon the life and services of monsieur Villeroy
By: translated out of the originals by Sr. T[homas]. H[awkins].
Contributors: Manzini, Giovanni Battista, 1599-1664.; T. H. Sir, d. 1640 tr.; Harper, Thomas, d. 1656 printer.; Vavasour, Nicholas. bookseller.
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Harper, and are to be sold by Nicholas Vavasour at his shop in the Inner Temple
Published: 1639
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 600
Subjects: Concini, Concino, -- maréchal d'Ancre, -- ca. 1575-1617.; Galigaï, Léonora, -- ca. 1571-1617.; Sejanus, Lucius Aelius, -- d. 31.; Buckingham, George Villiers, -- Duke of, -- 1592-1628.; Villeroi, Nicolas de Neufville, -- seigneur de, -- 1542-1617.; Filippa, -- da Catania, -- d. 1346.
Work titles: Aelius Sejanus, histoire romaine.
Notes: Each part has individual t.p.

Signatures: A⁶ B-2B¹² 2C⁶ (frontispiece included in the signatures).

Originally published in Paris, 1617 under title: Ælius Seianus, histoire romaine.

Supposed to have been written to represent the rise and fall of Concino Concini, maréchal d'Ancre, assassinated 1617, and of his wife Leonora Dori Galigaï.

The first English translation [of part one only] published under the initials P.M., with title: The powerfull favorite ... 1628, is said to have been intended as a satire on George Villiers, first duke of Buckingham. That translation has been ascribed, probably erroneously, to Philip Massinger--cf. S. Halkett and J. Laing. Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English literature. New and enl. ed., 1926-34, v. 4, p. 403.

The second part: Unhappy prosperity: or Philippa the Catanian is founded on a story by Boccaccio in the De casibus virorum illustrium.

Various errors in paging.

Title page within ornamental border; text within lined borders; head-pieces; initials.

S.T.C., 17667.

Burns Library copy: inscription on front pastedown endpaper: J.C.W., Jan. 1905; Boston College Library stamp on t.p. on both copies.
Table of contents: value: Unhappy prosperity expressed in the history of Ælius Seianus; value: Unhappy prosperity, or, Philippa the Catanian / written ... by P. Mathieu ... 2nd ed.; value: Observations upon the fall of Sejanus / written ... by Gio Baptista Manzini ... 2nd ed.; value: Considerations upon the life and services of monsieur Villeroy ... 2nd ed.