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Major Revisions for an Important History of Portuguese Literature
Apparently Unpublished
1.BRAGA, Teófilo. Corrected proofs and manuscripts for revised edition
(Recapitulação) of volume V of his História da literatura portuguesa.
Probably ca. 1915-1924. Wrapped in a large sheet of paper bearing an
early manuscript note: "Originaes e provas do 'Romantismo' por Teofilo
Braga. Porto e Artes Graficas 2-Julho-1925." Another pencil note dated
8/9/34. 178 ll. of unmarked galley proofs (most 4º); 32 extensively
annotated leaves torn from the first edition of História do Romantismo
em Portugal; 12 leaves of autograph manuscript addenda (8º and smaller,
covered on either or both sides).
$3,800.00
Extensive material for the unpublished fifth volume in Braga’s major revision of his
seminal Historia da literatura portuguesa, which had first appeared in 1870. Braga died
in 1924, leaving Volume V unfinished. The note on the paper in which this collection
is wrapped suggests that it was returned by the publisher (to Braga's heirs?) the year
following his death. We have found no indication that any part of the revised version of
this fifth volume appeared in print.
During the 1870s Braga had become convinced of the truth of Positivism, and
subsequently edited many of his writings to bring them in line with that philosophy.
Radically revised versions of volumes I-IV of the Historia da literatura portuguesa appeared
in Porto, 1909-1918, with the name recapitulação in each title: I, Idade Média, 1909; II,
Renascença, 1914; III, Os Seiscentistas, 1916; and IV, Os Arcades, 1918. Prado Coelho notes
of these revisions, "Também aí há inexactidões, o predomínio da biografia sobre a análise
estética, o partidarismo doutrinário; mas quantos filoes ainda por explorer!" Volumes I-IV
of the revised edition were reprinted by the Imprensa Nacional/Casa da Moeda in 2005.
The present collection includes part of what would have been the revised volume V,
on Romanticism in Portugal. These two segments, on Almeida Garrett and on Alexandre
Herculano, would have formed perhaps half of the finished volume.
1. Garrett: A set of 178 leaves of galley proofs that begin: "Recapitulação da
Historia da Litteratura Portugueza. Terceira época: Romantismo." The galleys include
an introduction, "O Século XIX: sua fallencia mental e moral" (ff. 1-32), followed by "I:
O Romantismo Liberal: Garrett," which continues (with various subheads) to the end of
this extensive set of galleys, and is followed by footnotes (ff. 162-178). Printed on one side
only, untrimmed, unnumbered, in varying sizes (mostly 4º), no running heads, stitched
at upper left corner, some pages inserted upside-down. No annotations.
2. Herculano: Extensive revisions to the text of Historia do romantismo em Portugal,
originally published Lisbon, 1880. Included here are 32 extensively annotated leaves torn
from the first edition of the book, plus 12 leaves of manuscript addenda (8º and smaller,
covered on either or both sides). All these leaves are foliated, presumably by Braga for
the benefit of the copyist or editor who had to convert them to type. The foliation runs
from 1 to 35 but includes many insertions (e.g., 18a, 18b).
Teófilo Braga (Joaquim Teófilo Fernandes Braga, 1843-1924), a native of Ponta Delgada
in the Azores, published his first book of poetry at age 17 and an acclaimed book of verse,
Visão dos Tempos, in 1864. The next year he was embroiled in the Questão Coimbra on
the side of Antero de Quental and became notorious for his harsh criticism of Antonio
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Feliciano de Castilho. By 1872, having been awarded the chair of Modern Literature at
the Curso Superior de Letras (today the Universidade de Lisboa), he turned most of his
energy to literary research and criticism.
Braga’s Historia da literatura portuguesa, 1870, was recognized as an important
survey of Portuguese literature; Prado Coelho describes it as “terreno em que o grande
cabouqueiro, ainda hoje incomparável, pela riqueza de ideias, de intuições, de factos
averiguados, e pelo esforço de síntese.” (Part V of this História was on Romanticism.) The
most controversial aspects of the work were Braga’s postulation of a “Mozarabic soul”
that was later suffocated by influence from Spain, and his disparaging attitude toward
“highbrow” literature.
Also controversial was his Historia do romantismo em Portugal, 1880: Braga argued
that the Romantic movement in Portugal paralleled and reflected the nation’s political
situation. The work included an introduction (“Ideia Geral do Romantismo”) and a book
devoted to each of the three writers who dominated the Romantic movement in Portugal:
Almeida Garrett, Alexandre Herculano, and Antonio Feliciano de Castilho. If Braga kept
this structure (which is not guaranteed, since he was making drastic revisions), then
the chapters in this collection on Herculano and Garrett would comprise about half the
recapitulação of the História da literatura portuguesa volume on Romantismo.
Braga’s interests were wide ranging: he wrote extensively on Portuguese folklore
and was highly influential in introducing sociology to Portugal. After the death of his
children and his wife, he became involved in politics. For a brief time after the Revolution
of 1910 he was president of the provisional government of the Republic, and in 1915, for
a few months, succeeded Manuel de Arriaga as president of the Republic.
❊ On the Historia do romantismo em Portugal in Artigos de apoio Infopédia, Porto:
Porto Editora, 2003-2019. On Braga, see Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literature
portuguesa, pp. 72-3; Amadeu Carvalho Homem in Biblos, I, 739-41; Jacinto do Prado Coelho,
ed., Dicionário de literatura (1994) I, 119-21; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II,
253-7; Helena Carvalhão Buescu, ed., Dicionário do romantismo literário português, pp. 55-57.
Rio de Janeiro Police Chief: Hit the Road
2. [BRAZILIAN EXPULSION ORDER]. Autograph order, signed by
[Antonio] Simões Silva, Police Chief of Rio de Janeiro, for the expulsion
of Arcenio P.P. de Castro, a Portuguese subject, from the Empire of
Brazil. On paper, in Portuguese. Dated 2 July 1849. Single sheet (15.2 x
19 cm.), unbound. Ten lines written in ink, in a large, sprawling, legible
hand that matches the name of Simões Silva at the end of the document.
Foldlines. Light browning. Overall very good. (1 l.)
$300.00
Antonio Simões da Silva was chief of police in Rio de Janeiro during the 1840s. At
the time, summary deportation was the preferred method for dealing with foreigners
who committed crimes in Brazil. After 1841 the chief of police could order expulsions on
his own authority, without any formal charges. During a relatively short period in 1849,
Simões da Silva is said to have ordered the deportation of 13 Portuguese, one Austrian,
and one Chilean, stating that they were of "terrible habits, incorrigible, drunks, and
troublemakers who had been convicted and served jail time for various crimes" (Holloway
p. 186). The particular crime committed by Castro is not stated.
❊ On the expulsion of foreign criminals from Rio de Janeiro, see Rosana Barbosa,
Immigration and Xenophobia: Portuguese Immigrants in Early 19th Century Rio de Janeiro
(2009), p. 89; and Thomas H. Holloway, Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance
in a Nineteenth-Century City (1993).
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*3. CASTRO, D. Manoel de Portugal e. A.l.s. to Basilio Teixeira Cardoso
de Sá-Vedra Freire, dated Villa Rica [Minas Gerais], 14 November 1814.
Folio (31.1 x 21.5 cm.), Folded twice. In good to very good condition.
(2 ll.), the final 3 pp. blank.
$150.00
Writing to Basilio Teixeira Cardoso de Sá-Vedra Freire, Ombudsman of the Sabará
District, Capitania of Minas Gerais, Castro is responding to warnings or precautions
regarding what will be presented in a Requerimento [petition] by the residents of Villa de
Caeté. It seems that much maintenance was made in the area to achieve the desired effect,
but the residents have made a Requerimento anyway. Castro says he had brought these
issues to the attention of the Prince Regent many times.
Manuel [Francisco Zacarias] de Portugal e Castro (1787-1854), colonial administrator
and government minister, was Governor-General of the Capitania de Minas Gerais from
1814 to 1821. He was the son of D. Afonso Miguel de Portugal e Castro, 4.º Marquês de
Valença and D. Maria Teresa Teles da Silva, daughter of the 6.º Conde de Vilar Maior
and of the 2.ª Marquesa de Penalva, as well as being the brother of José Bernardino de
Portugal e Castro, 5.º Marquês de Valença. He never married, and left no descendants.
A member of the junta created 18 June 1823 to reform the lei fundamental, afterwards
he was appointed governor of Madeira, a post in which he served for several months
in 1826 before being nominated 84th Governor of India (until 1830) and 50th Viceroy of
India, until 1835. He was Minister of Marine and Overseas Territories in the government
of the Duke of Saldanha, from 6 October 1846 to 28 April 1847, and Foreign Minister in
the same government, from 4 November 1846 to 28 April 1847.
Basilio Teixeira Cardoso de Sá-Vedra Freire, Ombudsman of the Sabará District,
Capitania of Minas Gerais, is the author of “Informação da Capitania de Minas Geraes,
dada em 1805 ...” in Revista do Arquivo Público Mineiro, Ouro Preto, v. 2, fasc. 4, 1897, pp.
673-683. The “Informação da Capitania de Minas – Geraes” is an important historical
work, containing a wealth of information on the miserable state of the mines in Minas
Gerais at the turn of the nineteenth century. It is still consulted by scholars interested
in the culture and history of Minas Gerais during the early nineteenth-century (see, for
example, Thais Nívia de Lima e Fonseca, "Circulation and Appropriation of Educational
Concepts: Illustrated Thinking and Teaching Manuals in Portuguese Colonial American
World [Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries]" in Dossier: Educação em Revista, 32 (3), 2016,
pp. 167-185 and Haruf Salmen Espindola, "Da Roda da Fortuna à Utilidade Prática das
Coisas: Produção Intelectual na Crise da Economia do Ouro em Minas Gerais" in Fronteiras:
Revista de História, vol. 12, n. 22, 2010, pp. 103-130; pp. 106 and 121).
❊ See Grande enciclopédia, XXII, 883.
Important Archive
*4. CASTRO, Eugénio de. Archive of 15 Autograph Letters Signed
to Albino Forjaz de Sampaio, + other manuscript material in Castro's
hand. Coimbra, 1904-1939. In very good to fine condition. $3,200.00
The poet, diplomat and university professor Eugénio de Castro (Eugénio de Castro e
Almeida, 1869-1944) introduced Symbolism to Portugal; as a young diplomat in Paris he
came into contact with the great French symbolist poets, becoming a friend of Jean Moréas
and Henri de Régnier. His influence can be seen even on such established Portuguese
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writers as Guerra Junqueiro, and he undoubtedly paved the way for Camilo Pessanha
and Mário Sá Carneiro. Castro's verse ("often so perfect, always so artificial," says Bell,
Portuguese Literature p. 337) signaled the return to poetry of careful thought and planning,
as opposed to the inspired improvisation of the Romanticists, and led to the cult of "art
for art's sake" or "estheticism" that became prominent in Portugal ca. 1925.
Provenance: Albino Maria Pereira Forjaz de Sampaio (1884–1949) was a member of
the Academia das Sciências de Lisboa. He wrote and edited a large number of books;
among the most noteworthy are the 4-volume História da literatura portuguesa ilustrada,
and the catalogue of his collection of Portuguese theater: Subsídios para a História do Teatro
Português. Teatro de Cordel (Catálogo da Colecção do autor), published by the Academy of
Sciences in 1922. His Palavras Cinicas was perhaps the greatest bestseller in twentieth-
century Portugal, with 46 editions by the time of his death. A passionate bibliophile, there
is a catalogue of the auction sale of his library, Catálogo da importante e valiosa biblioteca
do ilustre escritor … Albino Forjaz de Sampaio … a venda em leilão … 11 de junho de 1945 na
Liquidadora Fuertes … sob a direcção de Arnaldo Henriques de Oliveira. For Forjaz de Sampaio,
see Maria Amélia Gomes in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 432;
António Leitão in Biblos, IV, 1076-7; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 310-1.
An inventory of the archive follows:
4-x-1904 [postmark]—Castro’s calling card with a brief autograph note, attached
by paper clip to a hand-addressed envelope.
A.l.s.—9-x-1905—2 ll.—17.2 x 12.5 cm.—plain stationery. Letter occupies pp. 2-3.
A.l.s.—[postmarked 7]-ix-1906—2 ll.—17.1 x 12.5 cm.—text occupies 2 pp.—paper
clipped to a hand-addressed envelope.
A.l.s.—17-ix-1906—on both sides of a stiff card 11.4 x 8.9 cm. In hand-addressed
envelope.
A.l.s.—7-xii-1906—on recto of a stiff card 11.4 x 8.9 cm. In hand-addressed envelope.
2-vii-1907 [postmark]—Castro’s Academia Real das Sciencias black-bordered calling
card with an autograph note on both sides, attached by paper clip to a hand-addressed
envelope.
30-x-1907 [postmark]—Castro’s Academia Real das Sciencias calling card with
an extensive autograph note on both sides, signed, attached by paper clip to a hand-
addressed envelope.
A.l.s.—viii-1911—2 ll.—17.9 x 14.4 cm. on stationery with a small embossed coat-
of-arms—letter occupies 3 of the 4 pp. In hand-addressed envelope.
A.l.s.—15-xii-1922—2 ll.—17 x 13 cm.—Universidade de Coimbra, Faculdade de
Letras stationery. Letter occupies the first 2 pp. In hand-addressed envelope.
A.l.s.—10-I [?]-1925—1 l.—23.2 x 14.6 cm.—text on recto—Lumen, Empresa
International Editora, Livraria F. França Amado, Sucessor stationery. In hand-addressed
envelope of the same stationery.
A.l.s.—7-ii-1925—1 l.—21 x 13.8 cm.—Castro’s personal stationery on beige paper
with his coat-of-arms in red. In a hand-addressed envelope, accompanied by an autograph
list of translations of Castro’s books into 7 different languages, followed by a list of
books which relate to Castro’s works, on 3 ll. of Universidade de Coimbra, Faculdade
de Letras stationery.
A.postcard.s.—28-ii-1925—19 lines + address in Castro’s hand.
A.l.s.—26-iii-1925—1 l. with text on both sides—21 x 13.8 cm.—Castro’s personal
stationery on beige paper with his coat-of-arms in red. In a hand-addressed envelope.
A.l.s.—28-iii-1925—1 l.—22.5 x 14.5 cm.—text on recto—Universidade de Coimbra,
Faculdade de Letras stationery. In hand-addressed envelope.
A.l.s.—7-vi-1925—1 l.—text on recto—21 x 13.8 cm.—Castro’s personal stationery
on beige paper with his coat-of-arms in red. In a hand-addressed envelope.
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A.l.s.—25-vi-1925—1 l.—text on both sides—21 x 13.8 cm.—Castro’s personal
stationery on beige paper with his coat-of-arms in red. In a hand-addressed envelope.
A.l.s.—16-i-1926—2 ll.—17.7 x 11.2 cm.—only 1 page with text—folded twice in a
hand-addressed envelope.
A.l.s.—4-xi-1931—2 ll.—17.4 x 12.9 cm.—2 pp. text—Universidade de Coimbra,
Faculdade de Letras, Gabinete do Director ruled stationery. In hand-addressed envelope.
A.l.s.—15-iv-1939—2 ll.—19 x 15.2 cm.—Castro’s personal stationery of bluish
paper with his coat-of-arms and Coimbra address. Letter occupies the first page. In
hand-addressed envelope.
"Palacios Confusos"—Undated Autograph Sonnet Signed—on plain sheet of paper
21.4 x 14.2 cm. There appear to be a few minor variations from other versions of this text.
Undated untitled autograph text signed of 2 pp. on 2 ll. 17.6 x 11.2 cm.—Begins "A
minha paisagem favorita é do Mondego É."
2 Empty hand-addressed envelopes + 2 covers from hand-addressed envelopes.
3 sheets 11.9 x 13 cm. with notes brief notes about titles of books, 1 states "tenho"
the other 2 "não tenho").
Sheet 31.6 x 22 cm. in Castro’s hand listing 6 books from dated 1884 to 1897—
apparently a want list, with "Urgentissimo" in red pencil in upper right-hand corner.
❊ For Eugénio de Castro, see Albino Forjaz de Sampaio, ed., Eugénio de Castro: a sua
vida e a sua obra, 1924; Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed., 2001),
pp. 479, 669, 914, 975–6, 986 and 998; Grande enciclopedia VI, 235-7; Etalvina Santos in
Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 119–21; Fernando Guimarães in Biblos,
I, 1074–6; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 85–7.
From Abatage to Zymosimetre
5. CAVROÉ, Pedro Alexandre. "Conservatorio das Artes e Officios de
Lisboa.Vocabulario Artistico-Mechanico-Francez-Portuguez. Extrahido
do Diccionário de José da Fonseca, impresso em Pariz em 1836, pelo
Demonstrador do sobredito conservatorio." Manuscript on paper, in
Portuguese. 1841. Large 4° (26.6 x 21.1 cm.), contemporary marbled
paper boards (corners worn; other minor wear). Written in ink, in a
small cursive of the period. Overall in very good condition; internally
fine. (1 blank l., 2 ll., 1 blank l.), 191 pp., (1 blank l.).
$1,600.00
Cavroé (1766-1844) was born in Lisbon, the son of a French carpenter. He played
a part with the liberal and constitutional forces during the first half of the nineteenth
century in Portugal and Brazil. Although overshadowed by such men as Alexandre
Herculano and Silvestre Pinheiro Ferreira, Cavroe was a lively and prolific writer as
well as an active workingman and artisan. Thus while he wrote plays, sonnets, odes, a
social history of the Portuguese guilds from 1620 to 1834, and polemical pamphlets, he
also designed and engraved lithographs, acted as an architect of royal, government and
private buildings, and was a cabinet and furniture maker. This manuscript lists French
terminology useful for workingmen and artisans, with the Portuguese translation and/
or a short definition of the term's meaning.
❊ See Harry Bernstein, "Pedro Alexandre Cavroé (1776-1844), master artisan, writer,
architect, and artist of Portugal and Brazil," Arquivos do Centro Cultural Portugues XIII
(1978), 167-190.
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Letters of a Political Exile
Discussion of an Invasion of Angola in 1935
*6. COUCEIRO, Henrique [Mitchell] de Paiva. Collection of autograph
letters, signed, to Paiva Couceiro's close friend Saturio Pires; written
while Paiva Couceiro was in exile in Spain, and covering matters personal
and political. On paper, in Portuguese. 1925-1943. Most about 17.5 x 12.8
cm., in a plastic sleeve. Written in ink, in a cramped but legible script.
Some holes punched in sides, without significant loss; otherwise fine.
9 autograph letters signed (98 pages), 17 autograph postcards signed,
1 calling card and 1 picture postcard with Paiva Couceiro's portrait.
$5,000.00
Collection of autograph letters, signed, to Paiva Couceiro's close friend Saturio Pires,
written while Paiva Couceiro was in exile in Spain. The earliest is dated January 6, 1925,
the latest January 7, 1943. The letters are nearly all substantive, and include discussions
of such matters as the famous letter Paiva Couceiro wrote to Mario Pessoa regarding a
possible invasion of Angola (August 4, 1935), and a discussion of the Causa Monarchica,
the Portuguese press and his own role as a leader of the Monarchist movement (August
15, 1930). There are also more personal letters, such as one of April 9, 1926, lamenting
that the gas in his apartment had been cut off because he could not afford to pay the bill,
and railing against those who call themselves Monarchists but will not help support him.
Paiva Couceiro (1861-1944) became a prominent public figure in the 1890s, when his
heroism helped keep Lourenço Marques from being captured. From 1907 to 1909 he was
Governor of Angola. When the Republic was declared in 1910 he supported the King,
and in 1911 handed in his resignation from the army with the famous line, "Revoltou-me
contra a República para salvar Portugal!" He spent the remaining years of his life (mostly
in self-imposed exile in Spain) working to restore the monarchy.
❊ On Paiva Couceiro, see Grande enciclopédia XX, 21-23; also Manso Preto Cruz, A
Biografia política e o in-memoriam de Henrique de Paiva Couceiro (Lisbon, 1946), and Rocha
Martins, A Monarquia do Norte (Lisbon, 1922).
Copies of Restauração Diplomatic Documents
By D. João IV's Ambassador to Sweden, Holland, France, and Rome
7. COUTINHO, Francisco de Sousa. "Cartas de Francisco de Souza
Coutinho Embaixador que foi em Roma França e Holanda." Eighteenth-
century (?) manuscript on paper, in Portuguese. Folio (29 x 20 cm.),
nineteenth-century tan quarter calf over laid paper boards, tinted
a faint green, spine with raised bands in five compartments (worn,
minor worming at foot), gilt bands, red leather lettering-piece in second
compartment from head, text-block edges sprinkled blue-green. Written
in ink, in a large, legible hand of the eighteenth century. Internally fine,
overall very good. (3 blank), 84, (1 blank) ll.
$5,000.00
Copies of 30 letters, apparently unpublished, by D. Francisco de Sousa Coutinho,
one of D. João IV's principal ambassadors. Sousa Coutinho, a trusted friend of D. João
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since 1623, was sent abroad immediately after the Restauração to seek recognition of
Portugal's independence. In 1641 he negotiated a treaty of friendship and commerce with
Sweden. Two years later he was sent to negotiate with the Dutch, who were attacking
Brazil, Angola, and Ceylon. The treaty signed in 1645 was considered by many in Lisbon
and Pernambuco to be a betrayal of Portuguese interests, but Sousa Coutinho remained in
The Hague as D. João's representative until 1650. Edgar Prestage was of the opinion that
Sousa Coutinho's diplomacy ultimately helped keep Brazil in Portuguese hands, because
it prevented the Dutch from sending urgently needed supplies to their troops there.
In early 1651 Sousa Coutinho was dispatched to France, to discuss a possible alliance
with France and Sweden against Spain. In 1655, D. João sent him to Rome in yet another
attempt to persuade Pope Alexander VII to recognize Portugal's independence. Sousa
Coutinho remained in Rome until 1658, even after D. João's death had brought D. Afonso
VI to the throne (with his mother as regent).
Sousa Coutinho was born in 1597 on Ilha de S. Miguel in the Azores, and died in
1660. His published works include Manifesto, e protestaçam que fez Francisco de Sousa
Coutinho, Commendador da Ordem de Christo, & Alcaide Môr da Villa de Sousel, do
Conselho delRey Dom Joam o IV, nosso Senhor, & seu Embaxador extraordinario âs partes
Septentrionaes, enviado â Dieta de Ratisbona, sobre a liberdade do Serenissimo Senhor
Infante D. Duarte, 1641, and Propositio Facta Celsis Praepotentibus Dominis Ordinibus
Generalibus Confoederatarum Provinciarum Belgii ..., 1647 (published in French and
Dutch the same year), a proposal to the States General about Pernambuco. The Grande
Enciclopédia notes that Sousa Coutinho left in manuscript an account of his embassies
("Memórias Históricas"), which was praised by D. Francisco Manuel de Melo.
This collection seems to deal primarily with Sousa Coutinho's diplomatic efforts in
Rome. None of the letters includes a date. The number of letters is noted only when there
is more than one letter to the same recipient. In this manuscript, all letters to a recipient
are grouped together. The recipients are as follow.
1. P. Frei André Teles (?)
2. Conde de Odemira (8 letters) - probably Francisco de Faro, 7º Conde de Odemira,
ca. 1575-1661
3. Dezembargador Feliciano Dourado - Sousa Coutinho's ambassadorial secretary
while in France
4. Cardeal de Orsini - Cardinal Virginio Orsini, 1615-1676, named by Pope Urban
VIII in 1641 as Protector of the Polish and the Portuguese Orient
5. P. Mestre Ribaroza
6. Secretario Gaspar de Faria Severim (4 letters)
7. Pedro Vieira da Silva (8 letters) - prime minister of Portugal 1642-1656
8. Pedro de Valadares
9. Pedro Cezar
10. Marques de Genova
11. Bispo Capelão Mor
12. Embaixador Antonio de Souza de Massedo [i.e., Macedo] (2 letters) - 1606-1682,
D. João IV's ambassador to Holland, once considered a possible author of the Arte de
furtar, and usually called Portugal's first journalist, for his work on Mercurio Portuguez,
1663-1666
❊ On Francisco de Sousa Coutinho, see Barbosa Machado II, 269-70, and Grande
Enciclopédia XXIX, 852-4. Much of the same material, with some added comments, appears
on Arlindo Correia's home page.
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Copies of Restauração Diplomatic Documents
By D. João IV's Ambassador to Sweden, Holland, France, and Rome
8. COUTINHO, Francisco de Sousa. "Cartas de Francisco de Souza
Coutinho Embaixador escritas em Roma." Eighteenth-century
manuscript on paper, in Portuguese. 8°, mid- to late eighteenth-century
mottled sheep (very slight wear), spine richly gilt with raised bands in six
compartments, crimson morocco lettering piece in second compartment
from head, short-title gilt (a few pinpoint wormholes at head of spine),
covers with double-ruled borders in blind, marbled endleaves, text-block
edges rouged, green silk ribbon place marker. Written in ink, in a small,
tidy, very legible hand of the second half of the eighteenth century. In
fine condition. (1 blank l., 112 ll., 1 blank l.),
$2,400.00
Copies of thirty letters written between 1653 and 1658 by D. Francisco de Sousa
Coutinho, one of D. João IV's principal ambassadors: apparently unpublished. In this
manuscript they are arranged more or less chronologically; we have seen another copy
in which the letters were arranged by recipient.
Sousa Coutinho, a trusted friend of D. João since 1623, was sent abroad immediately
after the Restauração to seek recognition of Portugal's independence. In 1641 he negotiated
a treaty of friendship and commerce with Sweden. Two years later he was sent to negotiate
with the Dutch, who were attacking Brazil, Angola, and Ceylon. The treaty signed in
1645 was considered by many in Lisbon and Pernambuco to be a betrayal of Portuguese
interests, but Sousa Coutinho remained in The Hague as D. João's representative until
1650. Edgar Prestage was of the opinion that Sousa Coutinho's diplomacy ultimately
helped keep Brazil in Portuguese hands, because it prevented the Dutch from sending
urgently needed supplies to their troops there.
In early 1651 Sousa Coutinho was dispatched to France, to discuss a possible alliance
with France and Sweden against Spain. In 1655, D. João sent him to Rome in yet another
attempt to persuade Pope Alexander VII to recognize Portugal's independence. Sousa
Coutinho remained in Rome until 1658, even after D. João's death had brought D. Afonso
VI to the throne (with his mother as regent).
The recipients are as follow.
1. Andre Telles: one letter dated 1653 (starting on f. 2r)
2. Conde de Odemira (Francisco de Faro, 7º Conde de Odemira, ca. 1575-1661): eight
letters dated 1653-1658 (starting ff. 4r, 36r, 38v, 62v, 70v, 72v, 81v, 87v)
3. Cardinal Orsini (cardinal Virginio Orsini, 1615-1676, named by Pope Urban VIII
in 1641 as Protector of the Polish and the Portuguese Orient): one letter (starting f. 6v)
4. M.[estre?] Ribarola: one letter dated 1654 (starting f. 8v)
5. Conde de São Lourenço (Martim Afonso de Melo, 2º Conde de São Lourenço, d.
1671?): one letter, dated 1656 (starting f. 12v)
6. Gaspar de Faria: five letters, dated 1656 (starting ff. 19v, 22v, 32r, 33r, 39v)
7. Pedro Vieira (prime minister of Portugal 1642-1656): nine letters dated 1656-1658
(starting ff. 31r, 34v, 36r, 40r, 44v, 47r, 56v, 59r, 85v)
8. Pedro Cezar: one letter, dated 1656 (starting f. 33v)
9. Marques de Gouveia (João da Silva, 2º Marquês de Gouveia, d. 1686?): one letter
dated 1656 (starting f. 54r)
10. Conselheiros de Estado: one letter dated 1658 (starting f. 79v)
11. Feliciano Doirado (probably Feliciano Dourado, Sousa Coutinho's ambassadorial
secretary while in France): one letter dated 1658 (starting f. 101v)
Sousa Coutinho was born in 1597 on Ilha de S. Miguel in the Azores, and died in
1660. His published works include Manifesto, e protestaçam que fez Francisco de Sousa
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Coutinho, Commendador da Ordem de Christo, & Alcaide Môr da Villa de Sousel, do
Conselho delRey Dom Joam o IV, nosso Senhor, & seu Embaxador extraordinario âs partes
Septentrionaes, enviado â Dieta de Ratisbona, sobre a liberdade do Serenissimo Senhor
Infante D. Duarte, 1641, and Propositio Facta Celsis Praepotentibus Dominis Ordinibus
Generalibus Confoederatarum Provinciarum Belgii ..., 1647 (published in French and
Dutch the same year), a proposal to the States General about Pernambuco. The Grande
enciclopédia notes that Sousa Coutinho left in manuscript an account of his embassies
("Memórias Históricas"), which was praised by D. Francisco Manuel de Melo.
Provenance: Júlio Firmino Júdice Biker [or Bicker], official in the Portuguese Secretaria
de Estado dos Negócios Estrangeiros. In 1872 he was charged with continuing the work
which began in 1856 of the Visconde Borges de Castro, who had compiled 8 volumes of
Collecção dos tratados convenções, contratos e actos publicos celebrados entre a Coroa
de Portugal e as mais potencias desde 1640 ate ao presente. Biker brought the collection
to 30 volumes, the final volume being published in 1879. He also compiled Collecção de
tratados e concertos de pazes que o Estado da India Portugueza fez com os Reis e Senhores com
quem teve relações nas partes da Asia e Africa Oriental desde o princípio da conquista até ao fim
do século XVIII, in 14 volumes, 1881-1887.
❊ On Francisco de Sousa Coutinho, see Barbosa Machado II, 269-70, and Grande
enciclopédia XXIX, 852-4.
Significant Literary Archive of an Important Modern Portuguese Writer
9. DANTAS, Julio. Collection of letters, drafts, and research notes;
manuscripts, page proofs, etc. In Portuguese. 1880s-1950s. Most 8º,
but ranging from 7 x 7 cm. to folio size., Written in Dantas's small but
legible hand. In good to very good condition. About 725 leaves dating
from the 1880s to the 1950s, with concentrations in the late 1880s and
1930s to 1940s. Includes many notes scribbled on the back of letters,
typed copy, page proofs, etc.
$6,800.00
A collection of about 725 pages by one of the most well-known early twentieth century
Portuguese authors. It includes many working drafts and research notes, ranging from
the 1880s to the 1950s with concentrations in the 1880s and 1920s to 1950s. Physician,
playwright, poet, journalist, diplomat and academic, Júlio Dantas (Lagos, 1876-Lisbon,
1962) is most famous for A ceia dos cardeaes, which went through 48 editions from 1902
to 1962 and translations into French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, English, German, Swiss,
Danish, and Japanese. Its influence may also be judged by the fact that no fewer than 49
parodies of it are listed in Campos Ferreira Lima’s As parodias na literatura portuguesa.
The opening salvo of the Portuguese Modernist movement was José de Almada
Negreiros's Manifesto anti-Dantas (1915), a rare work. Almost the entire edition of this
ferocious attack was said to have been purchased and then destroyed by Dantas.
Son of a military officer, Dantas attended Lisbon's Colégio Militar, then studied
medicine at the University of Lisbon. In 1893 he published his first article, in Novidades.
His first book of verse, Nada, appeared to wide acclaim in 1896, while Dantas was still
in school. O que morreu de amor, his first play, was staged in 1899 - the same year he
defended his thesis Pintores e poetas de Rilhafoles, on the artistic manifestations of
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