Egyptian Oedipus, Volume 1

...approved by your judgment, it will run unhindered to the ends of the four-part World The "four-part world" refers to the continents known to 17th-century Europeans: Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.; it will tell to Europe, it will proclaim to Asia, it will sing to Africa, and it will extol to America FERDINAND III, the Augustus, by whose generosity this work has come back to life, and by whose command it has been restored. Farewell, pillar of the Christian World, the very Archetype original: Idea; here meaning the perfect model or blueprint of a ruler. of Caesars, and the delight of the human race.