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8°, contemporary mottled sheep (head of spine slightly defective; worm trail of about 2 cm. on upper cover near lower outer corner; very slight wear to corners), spine with raised bands in five compartments and gilt fillets, crimson leather lettering piece, gilt letter, text block edges rouged. Small typographical vignette on title page. Woodcut headpiece and small initial on p. 1. Two smaller woodcut initials on second leaf recto and verso. Minor worming in lower outer margin of first 54 leaves and in leaves H7-8, I1. Pinpoint wormhole in upper portion of same first 54 leaves, touching a few letters of text but never affecting legibility, joined by another similar trace in preliminaries and first leaf of text only. Inevitable light browning. Burn mark in leaf C1 affecting a few words of text. Overall in good condition. Bookplates of Luis Mallo and João G. de Sousa. (4 ll.), 358 pp. *** This classic Portuguese novella with poetry appended to the prose, probably written between 1530 and 1540, was first published in Ferrara by Abraham Usque in 1554 under title Hystoria de menina e moça. It is considered one of the finest examples of the genre of pastoral romance in Renaissance literature. There are two other sixteenth-century editions, Évora 1557-8 and Lisbon 1559, as well as one of Lisbon: Paulo Craesbeeck, 1645. It was reprinted in Ribeiro's Obras, Lisbon 1852, and there have been a number of twentieth- and twenty-first century editions. In the present volume "Egloga I [-V]" occupy pp. 268-353. The final pages contain a "Romance".Twelve poems by Bernardim Ribeiro were included in the Cancioneiro geral of Garcia de Resende. Little is known for certain about his life. He was probably born in Torrão, in the Alentejo (1482?), and died in Lisbon (1552?). The editor, a Lisbon jurist, provides a prologue (second preliminary leaf verso to third preliminary leaf verso), and a sonnet to Manoel da Sylva Mascarenhas.*** Innocêncio I, 358; see also pp. 356-9; VIII, 379; Fonseca, Aditamento p. 85. Pinto de Matos (1970) pp. 536-7. See Bell, Portuguese Literature, pp. 132-9 et passim; Hugh Chishold in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), XXIII, 284; Helder Macedo in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 416-9; José Augusto Cardoso Bernardes in Biblos, IV, 781-7. Porbase (which calls for only 6 preliminary pp.) locates a total of eight copies: four in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (one seriously incomplete, lacking the title page and four other leaves, another in "mau estado"), one each in the Biblioteca Geral de Arte of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and the Faculdade de Letras of the Universidade do Porto, and two in the Biblioteca Municipal de Elvas. This edition not in Jisc, which lists several fairly recent editions. Hollis locates a copy in the Houghton Library. Orbis lists six editions, 1975 through 2008.
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