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El Gran Justicia - SOUSA (Manuel de Faria e) EL GRAN Justicia de Aragõ Don Martin Batista de Lanuza . En Madrid: Por Diego Diaz de la Carrera, 1650. ¶8, ¶¶4, ¶¶¶2, A-Z, Aa-Bb8, Cc2; portada, retrato, [14], 194, [8] ff.; 210 mm. Historical work by Manuel de Faria e Sousa (1590–1649), dedicated to the figure of D. Martín Bautista de Lanuza, one of the great jurists and governors of the kingdom of Aragon. Published posthumously in Madrid in 1650, this biography celebrates the life and deeds of D. Martín Bautista de Lanuza, highlighting his role as Justicia Mayor of Aragon—a position of enormous institutional and symbolic importance that ensured the balance between royal powers and Aragonese jurisdiction. The text fits into the moralizing and panegyric aspect of Faria e Sousa's work, which cultivated historical writing as a way of exalting exemplary figures from the Iberian past. This Madrid edition, printed the year after Faria e Sousa's death, is of particular bibliographical interest, both for its rarity and for the place it occupies in his vast literary output. ! Please note that this translated text was generated by Google. !