MAXIMILIAN IN 1502
Painting by A. de Predis

MAXIMILIAN I

HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR

(Stanhope Historical Essay 1901)

WITH NUMEROUS
ILLUSTRATIONS

R. W. SETON-WATSON

Commoner of New College
Oxford

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PREFATORY NOTE

No apology seems necessary for illustrating suchan essay as the present, save that it is aninnovation. No one now denies the value of portraitsin rendering history more vivid; and it might beargued that an essay dealing with a personalityrequires illustration more, not less, than importanthistorical studies.

My best thanks are due to the Keeper of theHope Collection of Engraved Portraits, Oxford, andhis assistants, for the use of eight of the illustrations,and for their unfailing courtesy and ready assistancein the selection; to the well-known publishers,Messrs. Velhagen & Klasing, of Leipzig, for the use ofillustrations 6, 7 and 12; and to Herr Löwy, of Vienna,for the two photographs of Maximilian (frontispiece)and Bianca Maria Sforza.

The Imperial Arms of Maximilian, which appearupon the cover, are taken from Sir David Lindsay'sScottish Heraldic Manuscript.

But for a prolonged illness the essay would haveundergone a much more thorough revision.

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ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Maximilian in 1502—Painting by A. de Predis (from aphotograph by Herr J. Löwy, of Vienna) . . . (frontispiece)

2. Mary of Burgundy (from the Hope Collection, Oxford)

3. Anne of Brittany (from the Hope Collection, Oxford)

4. Bianca Maria Sforza—Painting by A. de Predis (from aphotograph by Herr J. Löwy, of Vienna)

5. Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (from the Hope Collection)

5. Armour of Maximilian (by permission of Messrs. Velhagen &Klasing, Leipzig)

7. Maximilian in 1518—Chalk Drawing of Dürer (by permissionof Messrs. Velhagen & Klasing, Leipzig)

8. Sebastian Brant (from the Hope Collection)

9. Conrad Peutinger (from the Hope Collection)

10. Wilibald Pirkheimer (from the Hope Collection)

11. Albrecht Dürer (from the Hope Collection)

12. Das Rosenkranzfest—Painting by Dürer, with kneelingfigure of Maximilian (by permission of Messrs. Velhagen &Klasing)

13. Conrad Celtes (from the Hope Collection)

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