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Lot 39:
CAMÕES (Luís de) & SOUSA (Manuel de Faria e)
LUSIADAS de Luis de Camoens, Principe de los Poetas de España. […]. Comentadas por Manuel de Faria i Sousa […]. En Madrid: Por Iuan Sanchez, 1639.
2 v. 1.º v.: †8, ††4, A-Q8, R10, Aa-Vv8, Xx4; [12] ff., 552, 652 c.; 2.º v.: [ ]1, Aaa-Qqq8, Rrr4, Aaaa-Xxxx8, ¶-¶¶8, ¶¶¶1; [1] ff., 528, 670 c., [17] ff.; 300 mm.
FIRST ISSUE of one of the most IMPORTANT EDITIONS of Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões. Commented extensively and completely by Manuel de Faria e Sousa, it forms part of the critical tradition of the greatest poem in Portuguese literature initiated, according to some, by Manuel Severim de Faria. The preliminary folios include epigraphs, warnings, licenses, privileges, errata and fees, dedications to D. Filipe IV, Count Duque de Olivares and D. Jerónimo de Vila Franca, “warnings to read the book with more light”, praise to the commentator for Lope da Veja and finally some epigrams. The commentary itself, whose pagination is numbered by columns, has at the beginning of each corner a wood engraving engraved by Paulo de Vila Franca, followed by the stanza translated into Spanish and the respective commentary. In addition to the engravings that precede each corner, the work has engravings in the text as described below. PORTRAITS: Faria e Sousa, Luís de Camões, Vasco da Gama, Francisco de Almeida, Afonso de Albuquerque, Lopo Soares, Diogo Lopes Sequeira, Duarte de Menezes, D. Henrique de Menezes, Heitor Silveira, Nuno da Cunha, Garcia de Noronha, Estêvão da Gama, Martim Afonso de Sousa and D. João de Castro. That is, in addition to the portrait of Camões and the commentator, of several governors of the Estado da Índia. ENGRAVINGS: several coats of arms (2nd part, c. 80ss), solar and astrological system (4th part, c.483) and a world map that occupies two folios (4th part, c. 495). The portraits of the viceroys of India were probably made from the collection of portraits that since the time of D. João de Castro have been kept in India and which also served as the basis for the engravings published in Asia Portuguesa by Faria e Sousa published some years after the author's death. According to the Viscount of Juromenha, Faria e Sousa began writing this commentary around 1613, occupying it for the next twenty-five years. The work was originally written in Portuguese, being completed in 1621, Faria e Sousa later deciding to publish it in Castilian, reforming it until it was ready for edition in 1638. Following the information given by the Viscount of Juromenha, the work began to be published in March of 1638 and “a week later, without having time to read it, as the Commentator correctly warns, he was accused by the court of the Holy Office by personal enemies, who wanted to induce him to write against the poet” (Juromenha, 331). Its main accuser was D. Agostinho Manuel de Melo, for reasons that are certainly complex and that go beyond the process, with the work being banned from circulating in Portugal for a brief period. Faria e Sousa ended up unaccounted for and the work was hugely popular. Faria e Sousa published a text on the inquisitorial process in 1640. Sometimes this text appears together with this edition, for obvious reasons, but it is not an integral part of it. As a curiosity, the title of this work is: Information in favor of Manuel de Faria y Sousa… about the accusation that was made in the court of the Holy Office of Lisbon to the comments that docta and judicious, catholically I wrote to the Lusiadas of the doctissimo and very deep and solid poet christiano Luis de Camoens. As there is no room here for a study on the work of Faria e Sousa [see the entry on Faria e Sousa in the Luís de Camões Dictionary], it is important to emphasize that the work of Faria e Sousa, more than “another” edition of Os Lusíadas it is a text in itself that belongs to the restricted group of structuring studies with regard to the poem. From this point of view, it is a fundamental work for all those interested in the work of Camões. VERY RARE and IMPORTANT. It is considered by many to be the most important work by Faria e Sousa, “the main monument of his erudition” [cf. Dictionary of Luís de Camões]
¶ Inocêncio, v.5, p. 256; v.5, p. 415; Barbosa, v.3, p. 258; Pinto Matos, 243; Samodães, 534 [descreve também a obra Información…]; JUROMENHA, Visconde de, Obras de Luíz de Camões, Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional, 1860, v. 1, pp. 329-334; Dicionário de Luís de Camões
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