[CORTE REAL, Jeronimo] Successo do segundo cerco de Diu. Estando Joham Mazcarenhas por Capitam da Fortaleza. Anno de l546. Fielmente copiado da ediçam de 1574. Por Bento José de Sousa Farinha. Lisbon Simão Thaddeo Ferreira 1784
8vo. xvi, 436 pp. Contemporary calf, spine gilt (rubbed, head & foot of spine very slightly wormed).
Second edition of this major epic poem recording the famous second siege of Diu and written by the celebrated 16th century poet, painter and soldier, Jeronimo Corte Real. He was admired by Lope de Vega, who referred to him as Docto Corte-Real. Critics of later generations have refused to ratify the estimate formed by contemporaries, who considered him the equal, if not the superior, of Camoens; his epic contains episodes of considerable merit, vigorous and well coloured descriptive passages, and exhibits a pure diction (Prestage, writing in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.) VII, p. 205). The original of Corte Real's highly esteemed work (1574) is exceedingly rare. This second edition is scarce, and is interesting in its own right as an illustration of the rebirth of Portuguese scholarship during the 18th century. Upper hinge weak, otherwise a good copy. Innocêncio III, 262, foi feita com diligencia. Gonçalves 701. Pinto de Mattos pp. 217, 591. Palau 63003. Azevedo-Samodães 918. Salvá 551. Heredia 5402. Welsh 4665. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa & the Portuguese in India, CJ7. De Silva, The Portuguese in Asia, 237 (note).
£160
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