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8°, later quarter cloth over decorated boards, text-block edges sprinkled green, original yellow printed wrappers bound in. A few leaves foxed, scattered small stains, some pencilled corrections to text. Overall in very good condition. Author's signed presentation inscription to Antonio Feliciano de Castilho on half title. 283, (1 blank), iii pp. *** The dedication copy of the FIRST EDITION. The dedicatee is Antonio Feliciano de Castilho (see p. 5). Bulhão Pato (1829-1912), a native of Bilbao whose parents were Portuguese, was the author of Poesias (1850), Paquita (1856), and Versos (1862). He was one of the most important Portuguese authors of the Romantic school. He published his first volume of poetry at age 17, astounding the literati by his individuality of style and unaffected simplicity of form. He was a friend and protégé of the historian, poet and historical novelist Alexandre Herculano, and also a friend of Almeida Garrett. Later he was friends with Ramalho Ortigão, Colombano Bordalo Pinheiro, and Eça de Queiroz (whose caricature of Bulhão Pato in Os Maias, in the form of the poet Tomás de Alencar, provoked a violent polemic). His name has been given to a classic of Portuguese cookery, Ameijoas ao Bulhão Pato (clams in a sauce of garlic, olive oil and cilantro).Provenance: Antonio Feliciano de Castilho (1800-1875) ranks (with Almeida Garrett and Herculano) as one of the three best Romantic writers in Portugal, and Bell notes that "His quadras . and his blank verse are alike so easy and natural, his style so harmonious and pure that, despite the lack of observation and originality in these long poems, they have not even to-day lost their place in Portuguese literature." Castilho published numerous works of poetry and prose, founded and edited the Revista universal lisbonense (1841-45), and began the series "Livraria Classica Portuguesa," for which he wrote the studies of Bernardes and Garcia de Resende. He also translated works of Ovid, Molière, and Anacreon. His translation of Goethe's Faust is particularly well-known for the controversy it raised among students of German language and literature ("a questão faustina"). Following Almeida Garrett's death and Herculano's retreat to Val-de-Lôbos, Castilho became the leading figure of the Romantic movement in Portugal. His 1865 prologue to a work by Pinheiro Chagas, which condemned the young writers of Coimbra (Antero de Quental, Teofilo Braga, Vieira de Castro) for "nebulosidade," incited Quental to write Bom senso e bom gôsto. A native of Lisbon, Castilho became blind at the age of six but nevertheless went on to earn a degree in law from Coimbra. Aside from his literary production, he invented a new method for teaching children to read, the methodo portuguez, and attempted to implement it while serving as Commissario Geral de Instrucção Primaria. See Bell, Portuguese Literature, pp. 299-300; Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) pp. 810-15; Grande enciclopedia VI, 201-12.*** Innocêncio VII, 50; XVIII, 157. Fonseca, Aditamentos p. 330. Bell, Portuguese Literature pp. 302-3. Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) pp. 818-9. Porbase locates two copies: Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Jisc repeats Oxford, Manchester, and British Library. NUC: MH. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 20589
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