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Rimas de Manoel Maria de Barbosa du Bocage. Tomo 1. Quarta Edição.Rimas de Manoel Maria de Brabosa du Bocage, dedicadas á amizade. Tomo II. Quarta Edição.Poesias dedicadas á Ill.ma e Ex.ma Senhora Condessa de Oyenhausen, por Manoel Maria de Barbosa du Bocage. Tomo III. Terceira Edição.Verdadeiras ineditas, Obras poeticas de Manoel Maria de Barbosa du Bocage. Tomo IV. E 1.º das suas Obras Posthumas. 3.ª Edição.Verdadeiras ineditas, Obras poeticas de Manoel Maria de Barbosa du Bocage. Tomo V. E 2.ª das suas Obras Posthumas. Segunda Edição.

5 volumes. 8°, contemporary tree sheep (some wear), flat spines with gilt fillets and dark green leather lettering pieces, gilt letter and numbers, 2 x 4.2 cm. oblong crimson morocco lettering pieces on front covers with gilt borders and "CLUB // LISBONENSE" in gilt lettering on front covers, text block edges tinted yellow and sprinkled green. Woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title pages of volume I and V. Woodcut design with publisher's monogram at center on title pages of volume II and III. Typographical headpieces. Woodcut tailpieces. A good to very good set. (2 ll.), 351 pp.; (4 ll.), 168 (i.e., 368) pp.; 303 pp., (2 ll.); x, 292 pp.; xv, (1), 313, (1) pp. *** The bibliography of Bocage is most complicated, and (we think) yet to be written. We have been told that the consummate investigator and Bocage expert Daniel Pires has been working on it. All of these relatively early volumes are rare in any form.Volume IV contains a publisher's preface (pp. iii-viii). Volume V contains a preface signed by Nuno Alvares Pereira Pato Moniz (pp. iii-xv).Manoel Maria de Barbosa du Bocage (Setúbal, 1765-Lisbon, 1805), an accomplished Arcadian poet with strong romantic tendencies, wrote a great deal of occasional verse - although Bell thinks he was capable of much greater things. Beckford considered Bocage a powerful genius. Bocage's mother's father was a French naval officer in the service of Portugal. Scarred by the death of his mother when he was ten, Bocage joined an infantry regiment at age 14, then switched to the navy and departed for India in 1786, where he spent several years. At Damão he deserted and wandered for years through China, Macao and Goa. Back in Portugal by 1790, he joined the Academia de Bellas Letras or Nova Arcadia (where his name was "Amano Sadino"), but left it three years later. Although they were once friends and fellow Arcadians, José Agostinho de Macedo and Bocage became bitter enemies. Bocage made other enemies among the Nova Arcadia, some of whom denounced him to the police chief Pina Manique. He was tried and imprisoned in 1797 on the basis of the anti-monarchical and anti-Catholic tone of his poems. After his release, he spent the rest of his life mostly doing translations, at which he was quite skilled.*** Innocêncio VI, 48-51; on Barbosa du Bocage, see VI, 45-53, 454; XVI, 260, 412; XVIII, 44. Bell, Portuguese Literature pp. 277-8. Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed.) pp. 670-3, et passim. See also Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 65-6; Carolina Maia Gouvêa in Biblos, I, 690-4, and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, I, 578-81 "O maior poeta português do século XVIII ." (p. 578). Nº de ref. del artículo: 37694

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