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VASCONCELLOS [Cardoso Pereira de Melo], J.[osŽ] Leite de.

  • Publisher: Livraria Chardron
Livraria Chardron. Portuguese poetry, poems, Portuguese literature, Portugal FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this book of poems. JosŽ Leite de Vasconcellos (1858Ð1941), descendant of a noble family of Resende, enjoyed a long and distinguished career as an ethnographer, archaeologist, philologist and literary historian. Provenance: Fernando de Mello Mendes (1925-2019) was a Portuguese mining engineer, bibliophile and art collector. As an art collector, over almost 50 years, he gathered an unusual and important collection of sacred art and other artifacts related to the veneration of Santa B‡rbara , patron saint of mineiros; dating from the 16th century to the present day, 160 of the most emblematic pieces in this collection make up, since 2022, the permanent exhibition "Santa B‡rbara, Patron Saint of Miners and Other Arts", on display in an underground gallery 230 meters deep in the Mina de Rock salt from LoulŽ. FIRST and ONLY EDITION

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