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8°, original pink printed wrappers (small triangular piece gone from upper outer corner of rear wrapper). In very good condition. Five-line ink manuscript presentation inscription to Albino Forjaz de Sampaio dated 1907 and signed "O auctor". 40 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of the author's third published work. A farce, it was performed in Coimbra the evening of 29 April 1899.Afonso Lopes Vieira (1878-1946) was Portugal's best traditional poet of the twentieth century. In 1916 he resigned his post as Redactor da Câmara dos Deputados in Lisbon in order to dedicate himself to reading and to poetry. His home, S. Pedro de Moel, became a haven for artists, musicians and writers. He also travelled extensively in Europe and North Africa, and reminiscences of these travels often appear in his works.The author's earliest published works were written as a student at Coimbra, 1897-1900, e.g. Para quê?, 1897, and Náufrago, 1898. From this melancholy phase he passed into a nationalistic one, in which he publicized early Portuguese literature, aiming to "reaportuguesar Portugal tornando-o europeau." During this period he helped prepare an edition of Camões (1928) and edited Montemayor's Diana, the Amadis, and Rodrigues Lobo. His Portuguese translation of the Poema do Cid was published in the periodical Lusitânia, of which Lopes Vieira served as secretary. He also wrote works for children, e.g. Animais nossos amigos, 1911 and Canto infantil, 1912.Provenance: Albino Maria Pereira Forjaz de Sampaio (1884-1949) was a member of the Academia das Sciências de Lisboa. He wrote and edited a large number of books; among the most noteworthy are the 4-volume História da literatura portuguesa ilustrada, and the catalogue of his collection of Portuguese theater: Subsídios para a História do Teatro Português. Teatro de Cordel (Catálogo da Colecção do autor), published by the Academy of Sciences in 1922. His Palavras Cinicas was perhaps the greatest bestseller in twentieth-century Portugal, with 46 editions by the time of his death. A passionate bibliophile, there is a catalogue of the auction sale of his library, Catálogo da importante e valiosa biblioteca do ilustre escritor . Albino Forjaz de Sampaio . a venda em leilão . 11 de junho de 1945 na Liquidadora Fuertes . sob a direcção de Arnaldo Henriques de Oliveira. For Forjaz de Sampaio, see Maria Amélia Gomes in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 432; António Leitão in Biblos, IV, 1076-7; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 310-1. *** Innocêncio XX, 95 & XXII, 22. Santos, Exposição bibliográfica de Afonso Lopes Vieira, p. 9. See Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed., 2001) p. 961; Bell, Portuguese Literature, p. 337: "There is a certain strength as well as a subtle music about his verse which is of good promise for the future." Also Maria Amélia Gomes in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 501-2; Fernando Guimarães in Biblos, V, 844-6; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 214-6. Porbase locates seven copies: three in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and one each in the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, and Biblioteca Tomás Ribeiro-Câmara Municipal de Tondela. Jisc repeats British Library only. NUC: ICN, OU.
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