O Mudo de Pernambuco, ou Gervazio em Lisboa.

COSTA, José Daniel Rodrigues da, possible author.

Published by [Colophon] Lisbon, Na Officina que foi de Lino da Silva Godinho, 1822.

About this Item

4°, unbound. Caption title. "M" in "Mudo" of title printed upside down. Uncut, partially unopened. In fine condition. 8 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION, with the caption title apparently in its first state. Two sonnets and a 45-stanza poem directed against Gervásio Pires Ferreira, who was derisively known in Lisbon as the "the Mute of Pernambuco." These poems were printed while Gervásio Pires Ferreira was being held prisoner in Lisbon after the failure of the Junta in 1822. The nickname "the Mute of Pernambuco" originated in the loss of speech that he experienced after he was sent to a prison in Bahia for participating in the revolution of 1817. Gervásio Pires Ferreira was elected president of the assembly of Pernambuco in 1821, after which he regained his power of speech. *** Borba de Moraes (1983), II, 601. JCB, Portuguese and Brazilian Books, 822/37 (giving the title as O mundo de Pernambuco, almost surely a typo). Not in Innocêncio or Fonseca, Pseudónimos. Not in Rodrigues. Not in Tancredo de Paiva. Porbase locates two copies, both in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, without any mention of the variant states of the caption title. Jisc repeats British Library. NUC: ICN, RPJCB.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: O Mudo de Pernambuco, ou Gervazio em Lisboa.
• Publisher: [Colophon] Lisbon, Na Officina que foi de Lino da Silva Godinho, 1822.
• Edition: 1st Edition