BRITTO, Fernando Pereira de Historia do Nascimento, Vida e Martyrio do Beato João de Britto da Companhia de Jesus, Martyr da Asia, e Protomartyr da Missão do Maduré. 2ª ed. com um importante addicionamento. Lisbon A.S. Monteiro 1852
Small 4to. XXIX, (3) blank, 361 pp., (1) f. with errata. With 1 map & engraved portrait of João de Brito. Half calf.
One of the outstanding Jesuit missionaries, Father João de Brito had in his youth been a page to the Infante Pedro, later to become D. Pedro II of Portugal. At the age of 26 he sailed for Goa, and was to spend nearly all the rest of his life in India. When recalled to Rome, he visited Portugal on his way to Italy; D. Pedro II tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to become tutor to his son, the future D. João V, then showered him with donations for the mission in India. He was martyred in 1693. His biography was written by his brother and first printed in 1722; this second edition appeared shortly after his beatification, and contains a new preface, extensive new additional material on pp. 267-361 and a map of the missions at Madurai. The 81 moral and political reflections included in the first edition have been omitted and substituted by an interesting collection of letters by João de Brito and by those connected with him. Innocêncio II, 277. Avila-Perez 5744, clássico muito estimado e valioso para o estudo dos portugueses no oriente. Pouco vulgar. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa & the Portuguese in India, DB4. Soares, Hist. da Gravura Artística em Portugal, I, No. 1170 (d) & 1818, who states that the portrait was drawn by João José dos Santos & engraved by Carolus Grandi. De Backer-Sommervogel, II, 192 does not cite this edition.
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