Rebelo João Silva Estacio Coutinho (1 results)

8°, nineteenth-century marbled wrappers Overall in good or near-good condition. Title page has small hole at head (repaired on verso), affecting one letter of title and with loss of a small piece of the margin. Small wormhole in inner margin from quire F to the end, sometimes touching a few letters, without loss. A few tears and some soiling. Quire M (end of the second Caderno) is of 4 ll. rather than 8, but the text follows. Contemporary ink inscription "Camões" on title page. 204 pp. Apparently only part of the book; collations given for other copies are [2], 362, 23, [3] pp. or 362, 23 pp. *** This collection of silly or humorous poetry in Latin (only the prologues and the final essay, pp. 185-204, are in Portuguese) includes a poem by Antonio Duarte Ferrão (pseudonym for João da Silva Rebelo) on tobacco: Nariz enganado, e desenganado . (pp. 85-101). The title translates roughly as, "The Nose Deceived and Undeceived; Tobacco Ridiculed and Defended, An Excuse for the Thrifty and a Pretext for Fops; A Work of Great Consolation for the Stingy, Mean, and Beggarly, and of Great Utility to Cheap Noses, Meddlers and Bores, and for Mouths Addicted to Chewing the Pipe and Cigars." There are also poems signed by Estacio Coutinho, Antonio Serrão de Castro, J.J.C.P., J.S.C., and Duarte Nunes Ferrão. This edition is not listed in Innocêncio, who mentions earlier editions of 1765, 1786 and 1787 and later ones of 1792, 1816 and 1843, noting that the work was often reprinted, "por ser sempre procurado, e bem acceito." We have not had the chance to compare the different editions, but our guess is that there are poems included in some which do not appear in others.*** Innocêncio V, 343; XVI, 90, 388. Fonseca, Aditamentos p. 281. See Guerra Andrade, Dicionário de pseudónimos, p. 39. NUC: MH, CLU.