Note 552 — Chapter X · POLITICAL ACTIVITY.
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Few episodes in Spanish history have been more exhaustively investigated than the career of Antonio Pérez and its consequences. Ample materials for its elucidation exist in the Spanish archives, in the Llorente collections preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale of France, at The Hague and in the British Museum, and these have been industriously utilized by modern writers. The contemporary sources are—
Las Obras y Relaciones de Antonio Pérez, Paris, 1654.
Proceso criminel que se fulminó contra Antonio Pérez, Madrid, 1788.
Argensola, Informacion de los sucesos del Reino de Aragon en los años de 1590 y 1591. Madrid, 1808.
Coleccion de Documentos inéditos, Vols. XII, XV, LVI.
Giambattista Confalonieri, in Spicilegio Vaticano, Vol. I, P. II, pp. 226 sqq.
Tommaso Contarini, in Relazioni Venete, Serie I, T. V, p. 401.
Cabrera, Historia de Felipe II, T. II, pp. 448, 540; T. III, pp. 529 sqq (Ed. 1876-77).
Lanuza, Historias eclesiasticas y seculares de Aragon, T. II, Lib. II, III. (Zaragoza, 1622).
The principal modern authorities are—
Llorente, Historia crítica, cap. XXXV, XXXVI.
Mignet, Antonio Pérez et Philippe II, Paris, 1854.
Pidal, Historia de las Alteraciones de Aragon en el Reinado de Felipe II, 3 vols, Madrid, 1862-3.
Muro, Vida de la Princesa de Eboli, Madrid, 1877.
Philippson (Ein Ministerium unter Philipp II, Berlin, 1895) and Major Hume (Españoles é Ingleses, Madrid, 1903) give interesting details as to the earlier events.