CORTE-REAL, Jerónimo.- FELICISSIMA | VICTORIA | CONCEDI- | da del cielo al sñor don Iuan d'Au- | stria, en el golfo de Lepanto de la | poderosa armada Othoma- | na. En el año de nuestra | saluacion de | 1572. | Compuesta por Hieronymo Corte Real, | Cauallero Portugues. | (†) | Impresso con licencia y approbacion. | 1578. | Com Priuilegio Real.- [No final]: ¶ Fve impresso en Lisboa. por Antonio Ribero. Año de M. D. LXXVIII. [1578].- [8], 217, [1] f.: il.; 18 cm.- E Jerónimo Corte-Real (ca. 1533-1588), poet and painter of Renaissance humanism, born in Lisbon, whose most famous work, "Sucesso do segundo cerco de Diu" (Lisbon, 1574), was dedicated to King D. Sebastião. His poem Felississima victoria..., in fifteen cantos, composed in Spanish, narrates the naval battle of Lepanto, which took place in 1571, between the forces of the Christian League, led by D. João of Austria (bastard son of Charles V) and the Turkish armada, under the command of Ali Pasha. The edition, almost entirely printed in italics on very thin paper, is illustrated with 15 allusive woodcuts (80x105 mm.), accompanied by as many historical capitals, at the beginning of each canto. The title page has a xylographic cartouche surrounding the title, bearing, on the back, the coat of arms of Philip II, King of Spain, to whom the work is dedicated. The last folio, with a blank back, includes a colophon, with the printer's mark. Exemplary overly trimmed copy, especially on the outer lateral margin, affecting the composition of the title page (front and back), beginning of the first canto (engraving and text of sheet A1r) and beginning of the second canto (only engraving of sheet B4v). Stained title page; some handling, browning and more accentuated tidal stains in the first third of the volume. It is, however, complete and solid. Eighteenth-century full mottled sheepskin binding, retaining the original endpapers. Inocêncio, III, p. 263. Anselmo, 938. D. Manuel II Library, 128. Palau, 63002. Palha, 786. National Library (16th century), 199.