Henry Duke Of Guise, Memoires Of Henry Duke and similar items

Guise, Henry Duke of, MEMOIRES OF HENRY, D. OF GUISE, RELATING HIS PASSAGE TO NAPLES, AND HEADING THERE THE SECOND REVOLT OF THE PEOPLE, ENGLISHED, London: Henry Herringman, 1669. First English Ed. full calf leather with gilt stamped decorative panel on verso and recto boards and handwritten spine label, 16mo (6.375x4.375), very good / na. [xi]590 pp. [i errata page]. Overall wear such as is expected in a tome of this period with some light chipping, corners as well as head and tail of spine lightly rubbed with light chipping more pronounced at head of spine, front hinge lightly separated but with binding completely intact, binding is tight,very gentle age toning, no observable foxing. Contains the bookplate of Sir Hector Livingston Duff on front paste-down. Count of Guise and Duke of Guise were titles of French nobility. Henry II de Lorraine, 5th Duke of Guise (Paris, 4 April 1614 – 2 June 1664, Paris)was the second son of Charles, Duke of Guise and Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse. Hoping to make good his family's ancient pretensions to the Kingdom of Naples, he joined the revolt of Masaniello in 1647. The "Royal Republic of Naples" was declared, appealing to the protection of France and nominally headed by Guise. However, the tactless Guise rapidly alienated the Neapolitans, and wielded little influence with Cardinal Mazarin. He was captured by the Spaniards in 1648 when the republic fell and held by them until 1652. He made a second attack on Naples in 1654, but it ended in failure, partly because of the presence of an English fleet under Robert Blake in support of the Spanish.