As a translator, Lohenstein emerged as a cultural mediator for the Romance-speaking world, especially in the fields of Spanish political literature and Italian poetry, from Petrarca to Guarini. With the historical portrait of a prince, Staats-kluger Catholischer Ferdinand (1672), this volume presents an important document of Gracián’s Early Modern reception – for the first time alongside its identified source text, the 1659 issue of El Político .