Collecção das obras poeticas, que no dia 21 de Setembro do anno de 1795, se offerecerão a Sua Alteza Real o Serenissimo Principe do Brazil Nosso Senhor na occasião em que o Reino de Portugal, e muito particularmente a Cidade de Lisboa, cellebrarão com demonstrações, e festas publicas o seu jubilo, por verem continuada a successão de Serenissima Casa de Bragança, na pessoa do Serenissimo Senhor D. Antonio Principe da Beira.

Lisbon, Na Officina de Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo, 1795.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, contemporary decorated wrappers (tears and small pieces missing from wrappers; spine mostly gone), all text block edges gilt. Woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title page. Minor marginal soiling to a few leaves, otherwise crisp and clean, internally fine. Overall in very good condition. Faint former owner's semi-circular purple stamp (early twentieth century? from Braga) on recto of first (blank) leaf. (1 blank l., 88 ll.), variously paginated and signed: (1 blank l., 2 ll.), 25, 14, 11 pp., (55 ll.), 11 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this collection of poems celebrating the birth of D. António, first son of the heir to the Portuguese throne, D. João (later Prince Regent, and still later King João VI), and his wife the Princess Carlota Joaquina (later Queen of Portugal). Unfortunately, D. António died aged six, in 1801. The poems contained in this volume are by members of the Academia de Bellas Letras de Lisboa, also known as the "Segunda Arcadia". Many were never published elsewhere, and some may be the only known examples of works by these authors, who were: Domingos Maximiano Torres, Manuel Bernardo de Sousa e Mello, Joaquim Franco de Araujo Freire Barbosa, João Silverio de Lima, Belchior Manuel Curvo Semmedo Torres de Sequeira, Joaquim Severino Ferraz de Campos, José Agostinho de Macedo, Francisco Joaquim Bingre, Luís Corrêa de França e Amaral, Angelo Talassi, João Antonio [Jean Antoine?] Monneau, Antonio Felkel, and Fr. Francisco do Coração de Jesus Cloots Vanzeller.Included are a pastoral drama, "O Alvoroço", signed B.D.M.T. [i.e. Domingos Maximiano Torres], an ode by Manuel Bernardo de Sousa e Mello, a drama in Italian, "Il Tempo Vinto" by Joaquim Franco de Araujo Freire Barbosa, "Sextinas, finalizando com versos de Camões" a canzoneta in Spanish, "Rio Manzanares, da las en-hora-buenas al Tajo", a hymn "A Deos optimo maximo and a sonnet in Italian, all by the same author. There follows a neo–Latin epigram and two neo–Latin laudatory poems by João Silverio de Lima, as well as an ode, sextinhas, and two sonnets, all in Portuguese, by the same author. There is then an "Ode pindarica" by Joaquim Severino Ferraz de Campos, and an "Idilio", a relatively early example of verse by José Agustinho de Macedo, by far the best known author represented. Francisco Joaquim Bingre contributed an "Epistola", while Luís Corrêa de França e Amaral wrote a "Genethliaco". There are two sonnets, a "Canzonetta" and a "Cantata", all in Italian, by Angelo Talassi. João António or Jean Anoine Monneau, who was called Jonio or Jone Sorbonence in the Academy, contributed an ode in Portuguese as well as verses in French. Antonio Felkel contributed neo–Latin verse, while some unsigned verses in German which follow appear to be by the same author, although they could be by the author of the concluding "Oração Panegyrica", Fr. Francisco do Coração de Jesus Cloots Vanzeller.*** Innocêncio II, 85: calling for a total of 176 pp. On the Academia de Belas Letras, the Segunda Arcadia, and Arcadismo in general, see António Ferreira de Brito in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 511-3. On Domingos Maximiano Torres, see Innocêncio II, 191; IX, 146. On Manuel Bernardo de Sousa e Mello, see Innocêncio IV, 81-2, 442; XII, 42. On João Silverio de Lima, see Innocêncio IV, 38. On Belchior Manuel Curvo Semmedo Torres de Sequeira, see Innocêncio I, 340-1; VII, 108; Martinho da Fonseca Aditamentos, p. 84; also Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 444-5. On Joaquim Severino Ferraz de Campos, see Innocêncio IV, 154–5; XII, 148. On Francisco Joaquim Bingre see Innocêncio II, 394-9, 478; VII, 113; VIII, 285; IX, 310; also Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 64. On Luís Corrêa de França e Amaral, see Innocêncio IV, 280–1; XVI, 13. On Fr. Francisco do Coração de Jesus Cloots Vanzeller, see Innocêncio II, 366–7; IX, 280. Porbase cites only a single copy, in the Biblioteca Municipal de Elvas, but gives a collation of only 25 pp. Not located in Jisc. Not located in Orbis. NUC: DLC-P4, DCU-IA.