Unhappy prosperity, expressed in the history of Aelius Seianus, and Philippa the Catanian
By: with observations upon the fall of Sejanvs [by C.B. Manzini] ; lastly, certain considerations upon the life and services of monsieur Villeroy ; translated out of the originals by Sr. T[homas] H[awkins]
Contributors: Manzini, Giovanni Battista, 1599-1664; T. H. (Thomas Hawkins), Sir, -1640
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Printed by T. Harper, and are to be sold by N. Vavasour
Published: 1639
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 588
Other titles: Powerfull favorite.
Notes: Each part has individual t.p.

Signatures: A6,B-Z12,Aa-Bb12,Cc6(frontispiece included in the signatures).

Originally published in Paris, 1617 under title: Aelius 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.

S.T.C. 17667
Table of contents: title: Unhappy prosperity expressed in the history of Aelius Seianus; title: Unhappy prosperity, or, Philippa the Catanian / written ... by P. Mathieu ... 2nd ed.; title: Observations upon the fall of Seianvs / written ... by Gio Baptista Manzini ... 2nd ed.; title: Considerations upon the life and services of monsieur Villeroy ... 2nd ed.