Lisbon, Na Officina de Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo, 1795.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4¡, contemporary decorated wrappers (tears and small pieces missing from wrappers; spine mostly gone), all text block edges gilt. Woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title page. Minor marginal soiling to a few leaves, otherwise crisp and clean, internally fine. Overall in very good condition. Faint former owner's semi-circular purple stamp (early twentieth century? from Braga) on recto of first (blank) leaf. (1 blank l., 88 ll.), variously paginated and signed: (1 blank l., 2 ll.), 25, 14, 11 pp., (55 ll.), 11 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this collection of poems celebrating the birth of D. Antnio, first son of the heir to the Portuguese throne, D. Joo (later Prince Regent, and still later King Joo VI), and his wife the Princess Carlota Joaquina (later Queen of Portugal). Unfortunately, D. Antnio died aged six, in 1801. The poems contained in this volume are by members of the Academia de Bellas Letras de Lisboa, also known as the "Segunda Arcadia". Many were never published elsewhere, and some may be the only known examples of works by these authors, who were: Domingos Maximiano Torres, Manuel Bernardo de Sousa e Mello, Joaquim Franco de Araujo Freire Barbosa, Joo Silverio de Lima, Belchior Manuel Curvo Semmedo Torres de Sequeira, Joaquim Severino Ferraz de Campos, Jos Agostinho de Macedo, Francisco Joaquim Bingre, Lus Corra de Frana e Amaral, Angelo Talassi, Joo Antonio [Jean Antoine?] Monneau, Antonio Felkel, and Fr. Francisco do Corao de Jesus Cloots Vanzeller. Included are a pastoral drama, "O Alvoroo", signed B.D.M.T. [i.e. Domingos Maximiano Torres], an ode by Manuel Bernardo de Sousa e Mello, a drama in Italian, "Il Tempo Vinto" by Joaquim Franco de Araujo Freire Barbosa, "Sextinas, finalizando com versos de Cames" a canzoneta in Spanish, "Rio Manzanares, da las en-hora-buenas al Tajo", a hymn "A Deos optimo maximo and a sonnet in Italian, all by the same author. There follows a neoÐLatin epigram and two neoÐLatin laudatory poems by Joo Silverio de Lima, as well as an ode, sextinhas, and two sonnets, all in Portuguese, by the same author. There is then an "Ode pindarica" by Joaquim Severino Ferraz de Campos, and an "Idilio", a relatively early example of verse by Jos Agustinho de Macedo, by far the best known author represented. Francisco Joaquim Bingre contributed an "Epistola", while Lus Corra de Frana e Amaral wrote a "Genethliaco". There are two sonnets, a "Canzonetta" and a "Cantata", all in Italian, by Angelo Talassi. Joo Antnio or Jean Anoine Monneau, who was called Jonio or Jone Sorbonence in the Academy, contributed an ode in Portuguese as well as verses in French. Antonio Felkel contributed neoÐLatin verse, while some unsigned verses in German which follow appear to be by the same author, although they could be by the author of the concluding "Orao Panegyrica", Fr. Francisco do Corao de Jesus Cloots Vanzeller. *** Innocncio II, 85: calling for a total of 176 pp. On the Academia de Belas Letras, the Segunda Arcadia, and Arcadismo in general, see Antnio Ferreira de Brito in Machado, ed., Dicionrio de literatura portuguesa, pp. 511-3. On Domingos Maximiano Torres, see Innocncio II, 191; IX, 146. On Manuel Bernardo de Sousa e Mello, see Innocncio IV, 81-2, 442; XII, 42. On Joo Silverio de Lima, see Innocncio IV, 38. On Belchior Manuel Curvo Semmedo Torres de Sequeira, see Innocncio I, 340-1; VII, 108; Martinho da Fonseca Aditamentos, p. 84; also çlvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionrio de literatura portuguesa, pp. 444-5. On Joaquim Severino Ferraz de Campos, see Innocncio IV, 154Ð5; XII, 148. On Francisco Joaquim Bingre see Innocncio II, 394-9, 478; VII, 113; VIII, 285; IX, 310; also çlvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionrio de literatura portuguesa, p. 64. On Lus Corra de Frana e Amaral, see Innocncio IV, 280Ð1; XVI, 13. On Fr. Francisco do Corao de Jesus Cloots Vanzeller, see Innocncio II, 366Ð7; IX, 280. Porbase cites only a single copy, in the Biblioteca Municipal de Elvas, but gives a collation of only 25 pp. Not located in Jisc. Not located in Orbis. NUC: DLC-P4, DCU-IA.
