§ 50. Charles V. LITERATURE.
Most of the works on Charles V. are histories of his times, in which he forms the central figure. Much new material has been brought to light from the archives of Brussels and Simancas. He is extravagantly lauded by Spanish, and indiscriminately censured by French historians. The Scotch Robertson, the American Prescott, and the German Ranke are impartial.
I. Jon. SLEMAN (ἃ. 1556): De Statu Religionis et Reipublice Carlo V. Cesare Commentarii, Argentor. 1555 fol. (best ed. by Am Ende, Frf.-a.- M., 1785). Lupw. v. SECKENDORF: Com. hist. et apol. de Lutheranismo sive de Reformatione Religionis, Leipzig, 1694. Goes to the year
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1546. — The English Calendars of State-Papers, — Spanish, published by the Master of the Rolls. — Dr Txuovu: Historia sui Temporis (from the death of Francis I.).— The Histories of Spain by MARIANA (Madrid, 1817-22, 20 vols. 8vo); ZURITA (Caragoga, 1669-1710, 6 vols. fol.); FER-
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Il. Biographies. Charles dictated to his secretary, William van Male, while leisurely sailing on the Rhine, from Cologne to Mayence, in June, 1550,
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and afterwards at Augsburg, under the refreshing shade of the Fugger gardens, a fragmentary autobiography, in Spanish or French, which was known to exist, but disappeared, until Baron KERVYN DE LETTENHOVE, member of the Royal Academy of Belgium, discovered in the National Library at Paris, in 1861, a Portuguese translation of it, and published a French translation from the same, with an introduction, under the title: Commentaires de Charles-Quint, Brussels, 1862. An English translation by LEONARD FRANCIS Simpson: The Autobiography of the Emperor Charles V., London, 1862 (161 and xlviii. pp.]. It is a summary of the Emperor’s journeys and expeditions (‘‘ Summario das Viages e Jornadas’’), from 1516 to 1548. It dwells upon the secular events; but incidentally reveals, also, his feelings against the Protestants, whom he charges with heresy, obstinacy, and insolence, and against Pope Pau! III., whom he hated for his arrogance, dissimulation, and breach of promise. Comp. on this work, the introduction of Lettenhove (translated by Simpson), and the acute criticism of Ranke, vol. vi. 75 sqq.
ALFONSO ULLOA: Vita di Carlo V., Venet., 1560. SANDOVAL: Historia
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de la Vida y Hechos del Emperador Carlos Quinto, Valladolid, 1606 (Pampelona, 1618; Antwerp, 1681, 2 vols.) SEPULVEDA (whom the Emperor selected as his biographer): De Rebus Gestis Caroli V. Imperatoris, Madrid, 1780 (and older editions). G. 1811: Vita del Imperatore Carlo V.,1700,4 vols. A. DE Musica (in Menckenius, Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum, vol. I., Leipzig, 1728). WILLIAM ROBERTSON (d. 1793): The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V., London, 1769, 3 vols.; 6th ed., 1787, 4 vols.; new ed. of his Works, London, 1840, 8 vols. (vols. III., IV., V.); best ed., Phila. (Lippincott) 1857, 8 vols., with a valuable supplement by W. H. PREscoTT on the Emperor’s life after his abdication, from the archives of Simancas (III., 327- 510). HERMANN BAUMGARTEN: Geschichte Karls V., Stuttgart, 1885 sqq. (to embrace 4 vols.; chiefly based on the English Calendars and the manuscript diaries of the Venetian historian Marino Sanuto).
Documents and Treatises on special parts of his history. G. CAMPOSI: Carlo V. in Modena (in Archivio Storico Italiano, Florence, 1842-53, 25 vols., App.). D. G VAN MALE: Lettres sur la vie intérieure de Vv Empéreur Charles-Quint, Brussels, 1843. K. Lanz: Correspondenz des Kaisers Karl V. aus dem kaiserlichen Archiv und der Bibliotheque de Burgogne in Brussel, Leipzig, 1844-46, 3 vols.; Staatspapiere zur Geschichte des Kaisers Karl V., Stuttgart, 1845; and Actensticke und Briefe zur Geschichte Karls V., Wien, 1853-57. G. HEINE: Briefe an Kaiser Karl V., geschrieben von seinem Beichtvater (Garcia de Loaysa) in den Jahren 1530-32, Berlin, 1848 (from the Simancas archives). Sir W. MAXWELL STIRLING: The Cloister-Life of Charles V., London, 1852. Εν. A. A. MIGNET: Charles-Quint ; son abdication, son séjour et sa mort au monastere de Yuste, Paris, 1854; and Rivalité de Francois I. et de