Rogue: Or the Life of Guzmán de Alfarache, The., 1623,
Alemán, Mateo

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Notes on Dedication/Dedicatee:
Dedicatee:		Strangways, John Title: Sir.
2nd Dedicatee:		Rojas, Fernando de Title: Marqués de Poza, Presidente del Consejo de Hazienda.
Preliminary Material Sequence:		Sig. 2 - 3 - Mabbe's dedication in Spanish. Sig. 4 - Aleman's original dedication to Francisco de Rojas, Marques de Poza. Sig. 5 - 'To the Vulgar'. Sig. *6 - 'To the discreet Reader'. Sig. A1 - 'A Declaration for the better vnderstanding of this BOOKE'. Sig. A1 v - A2 r - 'AN ELOGIVM Of ALFONSO de BAROS, Chamberlaine to KING PHILIP the third, in praise of this Booke, and of MATHEO ALEMAN the Author thereof'. Sig. A2 v - 'Vincentii SPINELLI Epigramma'. Sig. A3 r - Poem by Guzmán 'upon his owne life' and from Hernando de Soto to the Author. Sig. A3 v - A4 r - Latin poem by I. F. and then a poem to the Translator from I. F. again. Sig. A4 v - Poems from Leonard Digges and Ben Jonson to the translator. Sig. A5 - 'The printer to the Discreet and Curious Reader' signed by Edward Blount with errata below. Sigs. A5 v - A6 - Table of the chapters.
Preliminary Material Notes:		Aleman's dedication to the Marques is worth transcribing: "TO DON FRANCISCO DE ROIAS, MARQVESSE DE POZA, LORD OF THE HOVSE DE MONCON, President of the Concell de HAZIENDA to his Maiestie, and the Courts belonging there-unto.. So in like manner was it needfull for me, to helpe my selfe, and make vse of your Lordships protection, in whom, with so much splendour and glory, are made manifest to the worlds view, those three parts (Vertue, Blood, and Power) whereof true Noblenesse is composed. And because it is a peculiar propertie belonging there-unto, to favour and protect those, who (as to a Sacred place) with-draw themselues thither for their better safety, I rest so secure vnder the shadow of your Lordships protection, and rely so much vpon your noble disposition, that you stretching out the wings of your accustomed clemency, my booke shall vnder them (as Chickens vnder the Hens wing) remaine free from those that shall seeke to wrong it: And together therewith obtaine this happinesse, that you making that great, which in it selfe is little, admitting a poore Picaro, to become a Courtier, shall giue a being to that which had none before, a worke of such Greatnesse and Excellencie, as shall make your Lordship to appeare the more".