Sir Paul Rycaut FRS was an English diplomat and historian, and an authority on the Ottoman Empire.
Sir Paul Rycaut
«Monarchia turecka opisana przez Ricota», Slutsk, 1678
Baltasar Gracián y Morales, S.J., better known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit and Baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragón). His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.
Baltasar Gracián
El Criticón, first edition (1651).
Title page of the Manual Oracle and Art of Discretion, 1647