{"collection":"Esoteric & Occult","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/eso/aww/aww07.htm","path":"eso/aww/aww07.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/eso/aww/aww07.htm","text":"The Art of Worldly Wisdom, by Balthasar Gracian, tr. by Joseph Jacobs, [1892]\nTHE best bibliographical account of Gracian's works is that of Backer, Biblioth\u00e8que des \u00e9crivains de la Compagnie de J\u00e9sus, 1869, sub voce. I have shortened the descriptions of the translations, etc., of the other works of Gracian, adding a few items from the British Museum Catalogue and other sources. The Or\u00e1culo Manual I have treated separately and more fully.\n1. El Heroe de Loren\u00e7o Gracian Infanzon. Dedicado al Rey N.S. En Huesca por Juan Nogu\u00e8s, 1637, 8vo.\nFrench translation (1) by Gervais, m\u00e9decin du roy, Paris, 1645; reprinted Amsterdam, 1659; (2) by P. de Courbeville, Paris, 1725.\nEnglish translation (1) by Sir J. Skeffington, Lond. 1652; (2) from Courbeville's by a \"gentleman of Oxford,\" Lond. 1726.]\n2. El politico Don Ferdinando el cat\u00f3lico de Lorenzo Gracian. Al excelent\u00edsimo Se\u00f1or Duque de Nochera. En Zaragoza, 1640, 12\u00b0.\nFrench translation (1) by M. de S. (Silhouette, Chancellor of the Duc d\u2019Orleans), Paris, 1720; reprinted 1730, and Amsterdam, 1731; (2) by P. de Courbeville, 1732, 120.\nGerman translation by D. G. von Lohenstein.]\n3. Agudeza y Acte de Ingenio en que se explican todos los modos y diferencias de conceptos. Madrid, 1642, 8vo.\nItalian translation by a Genoese who passed it off as his own (Journ. des Savants, 1696, p. 333).]\n4. El Discreto. Dedicado al seren\u00edsimo Se\u00f1or Don Baltasar Carlos de Austria. En Huesca por Juan Nogues, 1645, 8vo.\nFrench translation by De Courbeville; 2nd ed. Rotterdam, 1729.\nEnglish, \"The Compleat Gentleman,\" by T. Salkeld 2nd ed. London, 1730; 3rd, Dublin, 1760.\nGerman, Der Vollkommene Menach. Augsburg, 1729, 8vo, from the French.\nItalian, L\u2019Uomo Universale. Venice, 1725, from the French.\nPolish by Brzostowski. Wilna, 1762, from the French.]\n5. El Criticon. Primera Parte en la Primavera de la Ni\u00f1ez y en el Estio de la Juventad. En Madrid, 1650, 8vo\u2014Segunda Parte Juyziosa y cortesana Filosofia en el Oto\u00f1o de la Varonil Edad. En Huesca, 1653, 8vo\u2014Tercera Parte en el Invierno de la Vejez. En Huesca, 1653, 8vo.\nEnglish, Pt. I., by P. Rycaut. Lond. 1681.\nFrench translation by Maunony. Paris, 1696-1708, 12\u00b0. Reprinted at La Hague, 1708, 1723, 1734; Rouen, 1709; Geneva, 1725.\nItalian, by G. P. Cattaneo. Venice, 1685, 1698, 1709, 1720, 1745.\nDutch, by M. Smallegange. \u2019S Gravenhage, 1691, 120.\nGerman, by C. Gottschling. Frankfurt, 1710; Halle, 1721.]\n6. Or\u00e1culo Manual. See infra B.\n7. El Comulgador: varias meditaciones para . . . la sacrada communion. Madrid, 1655, 12\u00b0.\nEnglish translation by M. Monteiro, 1876, 8vo.\nFrench, by Amelot de la Houssaie. Paris, 1693, 8vo.\nItalian, by Castro and Inviziati.\nGerman, anon. Frankfort, 1734, 8vo; reprinted Vienna, 1738; and Nuremberg, 1751, with Appendix by W. Reithmeier, 1847.\nLatin, anon. Munster, 1750-52, 120.]\n8. Obras de Lorenzo Gracian. Amberes, 1652, 4to.\n4to; Amberes, 1669, 4to; Madrid, 1674, 4to; Barcelona, 1700, 4to (with four idylls Selvas de a\u00f1o); Amberes, 1702, 4to, 1723, 4to; Madrid, 1720, 4to; Barcelona, 1734, 4to, 1748, 4to, 1757, 4to; Madrid 1773, 4to all in two vols.\nLatassa also mentions various poems and letters which are scattered about, some in MS. For El Varon Atento and El Galante see supra p. xxii.\nEarly Spanish Bibliography is in a very bad state. One difficulty is that each of the smaller kingdoms of Spain seems to have had the right to reprint books published in any other division. We find this difficulty with the Editio Princeps of the Or\u00e1culo Manual. Latassa states that it was first published in Huesca, Aragon, in 1647, \"Por Juan Nogues\" (like most of Gracian's works). No copy of this edition is known to exist in any of the great libraries of Spain or other parts of Europe, and the earliest known is that contained in the British Museum with the following title:\u2014\nBut in the Censor's licence to this there is a distinct reference to a previous edition with which it is said to correspond [\"coresponde con el antes impresso . . . que otras vezes ha sido impresso \"]. This confirms Latassa's date of 1647 for the ED. PR. But this makes it difficult to understand Lastanosa's reference to the twelve books of Gracian's, of which the Or\u00e1culo was the quintessence.\nFour only had been published by that time, and the two unpublished would make up only half a dozen. We must therefore leave the date of the ED. PR. a variable between 1647 and 1653, to be fixed by the future Spanish Lowndes or Hazlitt.\nThe Or\u00e1culo was reprinted at Amsterdam 1659, and henceforth it appeared in all the editions of the Obras. It is curious that it has never been reprinted separately in modern times in Spain, and can only be obtained in Biblioteca de autores espa\u00f1oles, tomo lxv. It has, however, been a book more honoured abroad than in its own country, as the following list of Translations, taken mainly from Grisebach and the British Museum Catalogue, will show\n1. Oracolo manuale, e Arte di Prudenza / Cavata dagl\u2019 Aforismi, che si discorrono nell\u2019 Opre di Lorenzo Gratiano / Mandalo in Luce D. Vincenzo Giovanni de Lastanosa. Diretto alla Nobilt\u00e1 Venetiana e dedicato all\u2019 Illustr. & Eccellentiss. Sig. Leonardo Pesaro . . . In Venetia MDCLXXIX.\n2. Huomo di Corte nuovamente tradotto dall\u2019 Abbate Francesa Tosques. Roma, 1698.\n1. L\u2019homme de cour de Baltasar Gracian. Traduit & comment\u00e9 par le Sieur Amelot de la Houssaie, cidevant Secr\u00e9taire de l\u2019Ambassade de France \u00e0 Venise. Paris, 1684.\n2. Maximes de Baltazar Gracien, traduites de l\u2019Espagnol [par J. de Courbeville]. Paris, 1730.\n1. The / Courtier's / Oracle; / or the / Art of Prudence / . . . Written originally in Spanish / And now done into English. London, 1694.\n2. The Art of Prudence; or a Companion for a Man of Sense. Made English . . and illustrated with the Sieur Amelot de la Houssaie's notes, by Mr. Savage. London, 1702.\n1. Balthas. Graciani, Hispani, Aulicus sive de prudentia civili et maxime aulica liber singularis olim hispanice conscriptus, postes et Gallice, Italice, Germanice editus, nunc ex Ameloti versione Latine redditus . . . Franc. Glarianus Meldenus, Constantiensis, recensuit, latine vertit . . . et notis illustravit. Accessit Joh. Gottl. Heineccii J.C. praefatio. Francofurti ad Viadrum MDCCXXXI.\n2. Hominis Aulici notum Graciani oraculum prudentiae, depromptum in sententiarum politicarum centurias III . . . Latinorum lingua loquens per interpretem P. A. Ulrich. 1734.\n1. B\u00f6lts \u00e9s figyelmetes udvari ember. Irta Sp\u00e1nyol nyelven Gr\u00e1tzian B. Forditotta N\u00e9metb\u00fcl Faludi F. . . . Posonyban, 1770, 1771.\n2. Udvari K\u00e1t\u00f3 Vagy is Gr\u00e1tzi\u00e1n B. nak Faludi F. \u00e1ltal Magyarra forditatott CCC Makszimai . . . Gy\u00f6r\u00f6lt, 1790.\nBaltazar Gracyan doskonalacy dworskiego cz\u0142owjeka przez 300 maxym . . . Krakow, 1802.\n1. L\u2019Homme de cour Oder der heutige politische Welt- und Staats-Weife / f\u00fcrgestellet von Balthasar Gracian, Hispanieren Und wegen seiner hohen W\u00fcrde in unsre hochteutche Sprache \u00fcbersetzet anitzo aus dem Original vermehret, und zum Undernmahl herausgegeben von Joh Leonhard Sauter, J. U. D. Franctfurth und Leipzig, 1687.\n[Pp. CXVIII, 775, 240.]\n2. Balthasar Gracian's Homme de Cour, oder: Kluger Hof- und Weltmann, nach Mr. Amelot de la Houssaie seiner franz\u00f6sischen Version, in\u2019s Teutsche \u00fcbersetzet von Selintes [= C. Weissbach]. Nebst Herrn C. Thomasii judicio vom Gracian. Augsburg, 1711.\n3. Balthasar Gracians Oracul; d. i. Regeln der Klugheit. Aus dem Spanischen von A. F. M\u00fcller. 2 B\u00e4nde. Leipzig, 1715-1717.\n4. Uomo di corte oder fluger Hof- und Weltmann. Nach der Italienischen Uebersetzung ins Deutsche \u00fcbersetzt [von Christoph Heinrich Freisleben]. Ultenburg, 1723.\n5. Die Kunst zu leben; vortressliche Regeln eines alten Weltmannes f\u00fcrs menschliche leben. Nach Balthasar Gracian [von K. H. Heydenreich], Leipzig, 1786.\n6. Der Mann von Welt, eingeweiht in die Geheimnisse der Lebensflugheit, ein nach Balthasar Gracian frei bearbeitetes vollst\u00e4ndig hinterlassenes Manuscript [von K. H. Heydenreich], Leipzig, Martini, 1803.\n7. Dos schwarze Buch oder Lehren der Lebensweisheit Gracian's . . . 1826.\n8. M\u00e4nnerschule von B. Gracian. Aus dem Spanischen \u00fcbersetzt von Fr. K\u00f6lle. Stuttgart, 1838.\n9. Balthasar Gracian's Handorafel und Kunst der Weltlugheit, treu und forgf\u00e4ltig \u00fcbersetzt von Arthur Schopenhauer. Nachgelassenes, Leipzig, 1861.\nDe Konst der Wysheit getrokken ujt de Spaensche van Gracian en nu vertaalt door M. Smallegange In's Gravenhage, MDCXCVI.","title":"The Art of Worldly Wisdom: Introduction: Bibliographical ...","type":"page"}