From Richard C. Ramer Old and Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Small 8°, Early rear plain blue wrapper present; traces of front wrapper. Small typographical ornament on title page. Penciled notes on title page. In good condition. 14 pp., (1 blank l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this dialogue in verse between Fama, Atropos and Protheo, lamenting the death of D. Pedro; followed by two sonnets. D. Pedro is probably unique in having abdicated two thrones on two different continents. He was the first ruler of Brazil after it declared its independence of Portugal, ruling as Emperor Pedro I from October 12, 1822 until April 7, 1831, when he resigned in favor of his son, D. Pedro II. He also reigned as King Pedro IV of Portugal from March 10, 1826, until May 2 of the same year, when he abdicated in favor of his daughter, D. Maria II. He died of tuberculosis in 1834, a few months after the liberals had triumphed in Portugal. Ricardo José Fortuna (Lisbon, 1774-1860) was for more than 50 years a prompter at the Portuguese national theaters, including the prestigious Teatro Nacional D. Maria II. He composed a number of farces and entremezes that were printed as literatura de cordel. (Innocêncio notes that he was not over-scrupulous about publishing the works of others under his own name.) The Dicionário cronológico calls him the last representative of eighteenth-century teatro de cordel, "cujo espírito chocarreiro e burlesco prolongou nas várias farsas e entremezes que escreveu."*** Canto, Ensaio bibliographico. Catalogo das obras nacionaes e estrangeiras relativas aos successos politicos de Portugal nos annos de 1828 a 1834 (1892), p. 109. Not in Innocêncio; on the author, see VII, 161-2. Not in Biblioteca Pública de Braga, Catálogo do Fundo Barca-Oliveira, which lists another work by Fortuna. Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses I, 599-600. Porbase locates three copies, all at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by Porbase. Not located in NUC. Seller Inventory # 21478
Bibliographic Details
Title: Dialogo consolatorio no penozissimo, ...
Publisher: Lisbon, Na Impressão Silviana, 1834.
Edition: 1st Edition
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