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  • Part XIX (items 94-109)
  • Part XX (items 110-112)
  • Part XXI (items 113-114)
  • Part XXII (items 115-125)

RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 59

December 2007

PART XVII:
Poetry

See also items 70, 74, 76, 80, 116, 117 & 120.
81. BUESCU, Helena Carvalhão Ardem as trevas e outros lugares. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2007. Campo da Poesia, 79. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 126 pp. ISBN: 978-989-625-178-9. $25.00

The author at the time this volume appeared was a professor at the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, working in the areas of comparative literature and Portuguese literature. She has published at least one previous volume of poetry, and has written a number of significant works of literary history and criticism, and has co-authored and edited several others.


82. CABRAL, A.M. Pires, Manuel de Freitas, Vítor Nogueira, and Rui Pires Cabral. Novas memórias de ansiães. Luis Manuel Gaspar, illus. Lisbon: Averno, 2007. Averno, 016. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 20 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l. colophon), 4 full page color illus. One of 350 copies, signed by the poets and the illustrator. ISBN: none. $20.00


83. CARTER, Henry H., ed. Cancioneiro da Ajuda: reimpressão da edição diplomática de Henry H. Carter. Introduction by Maria Ana Ramos. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2007. Filologia Portuguesa. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 37 pp., 1 l., xvii, (1), 190 pp., (1 l., 1 l. colophon), 6 plates with 4 images each, footnotes, indexes. One of 800 copies. ISBN: 978-972-27-1569-0. $50.00

The heavily annotated introduction occupies pp. [9]-37.


84. LOBO, Francisco Rodrigues. A primavera. Maria Lúcilia Gonçalves Pires, ed. Lisbon: Vega, 2003. Obras Clássicas da Literatura Portuguesa, Século XVII, 111. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 352 pp. ISBN: 972-699-722-4. $45.00

FIRST PORTUGUESE PASTORAL NOVEL. Based on the 1608 second edition, published during the life of the author, with his additions and corrections. The third edition, the last to appear during the author's lifetime, published in 1619, while claiming to have been "de novo emendada e acresentada," is actually a corrupted version of the second edition, with numerous typographical errors. The editor's introduction occupies pp. 7-37.
Rodrigues Lobo was a champion of the Portuguese language who had a significant impact on the formation of the baroque style throughout the Iberian Peninsula. "Entre os discípulos de Camões, mas distinguindo–se . . . . justifica–se pela posição central que ocupa na ficção bucólica maneirista, embora não possamos deixar de o ter em mente como teorizador ou preceptista da literatura, e ainda como poeta lírico."—Saraiva & Lopes, Históra da Literatura Portuguesa (9th ed.) p. 427. Forjaz de Sampaio called him the greatest Portuguese bucolic poet. The fame of this important author "rests chiefly on his three pastoral works of mingled prose and verse: A Primavera (1601) and its second and third parts O Pastor Peregrino (1608) and O Desenganado (1614). . . . Look into them where you will, beautiful descriptions, showing deep love of Nature, will present themselves, and delightful verse and harmonious prose, excellent in its component parts . . . ."—Bell, Portuguese Literature, pp. 153–4. Bell also writes of Rodrigues Lobo's "great and enduring fame."—p. 155. Each part of this trilogy stands on its own as a separate work; the first editions of each are rare, and all seventeeth-century editions are rather scarce.
Through a manuscript of a trial before the Inquisition of Miguel Lobo, the author's brother, it has become known that his father was a New Christian, while his mother was half New Christian; thus Rodrigues Lobo was three quarters Jewish in inheritance. It is clear, on the other hand, that the family had attained a status, albeit shaky, of borderline petty nobility, and that Rodrigues Lobo identified with the Catholic nobility.


85. LOBO, Francisco Rodrigues. O pastor peregrino. Maria Lúcilia Gonçalves Pires, ed. Lisbon: Vega, 2004. Obras Clássicas da Literatura Portuguesa, Século XVII, 152. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 308 pp. ISBN: 972-699-801-8. $48.00
SECOND PORTUGUESE PASTORAL NOVEL. The first edition appeared in 1608, the same year of the second edition of the first Portuguese pastoral novel, Rodrigues Lobo's A primavera, of which this is a sequel. The second edition, the last to appear during the author's lifetime, was published in 1619. There are also editions of 1651 and 1670. The present edition is based on that of 1618, which does not differ significantly from that of 1608, but using the earlier edition to correct some errors in the 1618 edition.


86. LOBO, Francisco Rodrigues. O desenganado. Maria Lucília Gonçalves Pires, ed. Lisbon: Vega, 2007. Obras Clássicas da Literatura Portuguesa, Século XVII, 188. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 225, (2) pp. ISBN: 978-972-699-878-5. $38.00

THIRD PORTUGUESE PASTORAL NOVEL. The first edition appeared in 1614; it was the only edition to appear during the author's lifetime, and was used to fix the text for the present edition. There were also editions of 1651, 1670 and 1721.


87. NEMÉSIO, Vitorino Obras completas. Vol. I: poesia, 1916-1940. 2nd ed., revised. Luiz Fagundes Duarte ed., prologue by Luiz Fagundes Duarte. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2006. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 363 pp., (1 l. colophon). ISBN: 972-27-1459-7. Vol. I. $45.00
First published 1989 under the editorship of Fátima de Freitas Morna. The present editor has provided a new preface (pp. 15-27).


88. NEMÉSIO, Vitorino Obras completas. Vol. II: poesia. Fátima Freitas Morna, ed. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1989. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 741 pp., (1 l. advt., 1 l. colophon). ISBN: none. Vol. II. $65.00
The editor has provided some brief introductory notes.


89. NUNES, Rui. Ofício de vésperas. Lisbon: Relógio d'Agua, 2007. Poesia. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. with d.j. 66 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l., 2 l. advt.). ISBN: 978-972-708-975-8. $25.00

The author's novella Osculatriz (1992) was awarded the Prémio ex aequo in fiction by the Pen Club of Portugal, 1992. His novella Grito (1997) was awarded the Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela APE, 1997. His novella Rostos (2001) was awarded the Prémio da Crítica for 2001 by the Centro Português da Associação Internacional de Críticos Literários. Rui Nunes has published at least 16 books, several of which have had more than one edition. See Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 344.


90. SANTOS, Hugo. Ode a Nossa Senhora do Homem. Lisbon: Vega, 2007. Colecção O Chão da Palavra / Poesia. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 57, (1) pp. ISBN: 978-972–699–872–3. $22.00

Awarded the Prémio de Poesia Actor Mário Viegas, 2005. [José] Hugo [Sarmento dos] Santos, poet, short shory writer, novelist, and teacher, has received at least 12 literary prizes. Born in Campo Maior, Alentejo, 1939, he has published over 30 books. In 1971 he was prohibited from teaching for political reasons. See Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 585.