RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 67

November 2009



PART I:
Bibliography, Books about Books, Dictionaries,
General Reference


See also items 41, 76, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 130, 223, 377, 378, 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 385 & 386.
1. BLANCO, José. Fernando Pessoa: esboço de uma bibliografia. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional / Centro de Estudos Pessoanas, (1983). Temas Portugueses. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 476 pp., (6 ll.). ISBN: none. $35.00
Indispensable, pioneering study. We have several copies in stock.


2. BLANCO, José. Pessoana. 2 volumes. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2008. Colecção Pessoana, 9. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 924 pp., (2 ll.); 190 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-37-1294-0. 2 volumes. $90.00
Volume I is subtitled Bibliografia passiva, selectiva e temática, referida a 31 de Dezembro de 2004. Volume II is subtitled Índices. The impeccable Pessoa scholar José Blanco's Fernando Pessoa: esboço de uma bibliografia (1983), has served as an indispensable guide to Pessoa studies. The present volumes constitute an updating and amplification of that work. However, it does not substitute for the earlier work, which treats Pessoa's active bibliography as well.


3. COUTO, Jorge, ed. Padre António Vieira: bibliografia, 1998-2008. Lisbon: Biblioteca Nacional, 2009. Colecção Bibliografias, Inventários. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 101 pp. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 978-972-565-450-1. $30.00


4. Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses. Organizado pelo Instituto Português do Livro e da Leitura. Eugénio Lisboa, ed. (volumes I-III); Ilídio Rocha, ed. (volumes IV-VI). 6 volumes. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 1990-2001. Sm. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 648 pp., (2 ll.); 513, (1) pp.; 561, (1) pp.; 740 pp., (1 l.); 764 pp., (2 ll.); 652 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-1-00640-8; 972-1-03157-7; 972-1-03185-2; 972–1–04378–8; 972–1–04726–0; 972–1–04779–1. 6 volumes. $320.00
Important reference work. Volume I (first published 1989?) is present in the preferred second, revised and expanded edition, (published 1991?). The other volumes are first and only editions. Each entry gives the author's dates, name variations, a brief biography and literary assessment, and list of principal works. The first volume, while extremely useful, covers territory already plowed by Barbosa Machado, Innocêncio and Pinto de Matos. Beginning with the second volume, this work becomes increasingly even more useful, treating authors not included, or not so well described elsewhere.
Volume I contains entries for Portuguese authors born before 1800. Contributors to this volume include Eduíno de Jesus, Eugénio Lisboa, Luís Francisco Rebello, Luís de Sousa Rebello, Manuel João Gomes, Margarida Vieira Mendes, Maria Cabral Pacheco de Miranda, Maria Teresa Arsénio Nunes, and Paulo Jorge Macedo Ferreira.
Volume II contains entries for Portuguese authors born between 1800 and 1866, in chronological order. Contributors to this volume include Alberto Sampaio, Alexandre Pinheiro Torres, António Cândido Franco, Carlos Reis, Eugénio Lisboa, Fernando J.B. Martinho, Helena Carvalhão Buescu, Ilídio Rocha, Luís de Albuquerque, Luiz Francisco Rebello, Raul Rego, and Urbano Tavares Rodrigues.
Volume III contains entries for Portuguese authors born between 1867 and 1899, in chronological order. Contributors to this volume include Alberto Sampaio, Alexandre Pinheiro Torres, António Cândido Franco, Carlos Reis, Eugénio Lisboa, Ilídio Rocha, Luiz Francisco Rebello, Raul Rego, and Urbano Tavares Rodrigues.
Volume IV contains entries for Portuguese authors born between 1900 and 1919, in chronological order. Contributors to this volume include Alberto Sampaio, Ana Cristina Neves, António Telo, Eugénio Lisboa, Ilídio Rocha and Pedro da Silveira.
Volume V contains entries for Portuguese authors born between 1920 and 1930, in chronological order. Contributors to this volume include Albano Martins, Alberto Sampaio, Ana Cristina Neves, Carlos Reis, Eugénio Lisboa, Fernando Guimarães, Fernando J.B. Martinho, Jorge Ramos do Ó, Ilídio Rocha, Isabel Hub Faria, José Viale Moutinho, Luiz Francisco Rebello, Nuno Júdice and Pedro da Silveira.
Volume VI contains entries for Portuguese authors born between 1931 and 1940, in chronological order. Contributors to this volume include Albano Martins, Alberto Sampaio, Ana Cristina Neves, Carlos Reis, Daniel Pires, Eduardo Pita, Fernando Guimarães, Ilídio Rocha, Jorge Ramos do Ó, José, Viale Moutinho, Júlio Conrado, Luiz Francisco Rebello, Nuno Júdice, and Urbano Tavares Rodrigues.
Additional volumes were planned, but the project appears to be at a standstill.


5. Dicionário Inglês-Português. 5th ed., revised and augmented. Porto: Porto Editora / Dicionários Editora, 2009. Colecção Dicionários Editora. Lge. 8° (25.3 x 17.5 cm.), publ. buckram with d.j. in printed cardboard slipcase. 1344 pp. ISBN: 978-972-0-01491-7. $90.00
In our opinion, this is the best English to (continental) Portuguese dictionary. It conforms to the Acordo Ortográfico.


6. FARIA, Maria da Graça Pericão de. Restauração. Catálogo da colecção Visconde da Trindade. Coimbra: Biblioteca Geral da Universidade, 1979. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. (2 ll.), viii, [6]-456 pp., (4 ll.), partially unopened. ISBN: none. $75.00
Excellent catalogue of the excellent collection of the Visconde da Trindade, now at the University of Coimbra, dealing with the restoration of Portuguese independence; the works range in date from 1640 to 1689. Each of the 329 items is described in detail, with collation, comments on content and numerous bibliographical references.


7. FUNK, Gabriela, and Matthias Funk. Dicionário prático de provérbios portugueses. Preface by Arnaldo Saraiva. Chamusca: Cosmos, 2008. Colecção Raízes. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 547 pp., bibliography. ISBN: 978-972-762-308-2. $55.00


8. MARQUES, Henrique de Oliveira. Dicionário de termos musicais (português, francês, italiano, inglês, alemão). Lisbon: Estampa, 1986 (i.e. 1987). Colecção Imprensa Universitaria, 47. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 809 pp., (9 ll.). ISBN: none. $85.00


9. MARQUES, A.H. de Oliveira. Guia do estudante de história medieval portuguesa. Lisbon: Cosmos, (1964). 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 285 pp., (21 ll.). ISBN: none. $25.00


10. MARTINS, Isaltina das Dores Figueiredo. Bibliografia do humanismo em Portugal no século XVI. Coimbra: Instituto Nacional de Investigação Científica / Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos da Universidade de Coimbra, 1986. Textos Humanísticos Portugueses, 3. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 273 pp., (2 ll. adv.). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: none. $50.00


11. PIRES, Daniel. Dicionário da imprensa periódica literária portuguesa do século XX. 2 volumes in 3 tomos. Lisbon: Grifo, 1996-2000. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. 459 pp., (1 l.), 16 ll. color plates, most printed on both sides; 385, (1) pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 8 ll. color illustrations; (1 blank l., 3 ll.), pp. 401-780, (2 ll.), 4 ll. color illustrations. ISBN: 972–8178–08–5; 972-8178-48-4; 972-8178-49-2. 2 volumes in 3 tomos. $225.00
Important and extremely useful work by a world-class researcher. Revised, amplified, and improved version of the author's ground-breaking Dicionário das revistas literárias portuguesas do Século XX (1986). The first volume describes reviews published to the year 1940. Volume, II, tomo 1, covers the letters A through P for the years 1941 to 1974. Volume II, tomo 2 covers the letters Q through Z for the years 1941 to 1974. This is the final volume, with several valuable aids appended: "Tábua diacrónica das publicações descritas" (pp. 653-6); "Índice geográfico" (pp. 657-60); "Bibliografia geral" (pp. 661-8); "Bibliografia sobre a censura em Portugal (1900-1974)" (pp. 667-92); and the "Índice antroponímico" (pp. 693-[781]).


12. PIRES, Daniel. Dicionário das revistas literárias portuguesas do século XX. Lisbon: Contexto, 1986. Revisto 3. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 346 pp., (1 blank, 1 l.). ISBN: none. $35.00
While this groundbreaking work has been largely superceded by the author's revised and augmented version in three volumes, the Dicionário da imprensa periódica literária portuguesa do século XX, it contains descriptions of reviews published after 1974 which were not included in the revised work, as well as a few tidbits of information not in the newer volumes. Moreover, it is arranged in a more convenient form, and does not contain some of the pedantic and sometimes confusing orthography favored by the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisboa cataloguers which crept its way into the later version.


13. PORTUGAL, Biblioteca Nacional. Estrela de papel: livros de astronomia dos séculos XIV a XVIII. Introduction by Jorge Couto. Lisbon: Biblioteca Nacional, 2009. Colecção Catálogos. Lge. 4° (25.6 x 22.15 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 197 pp., profusely and very nicely illus., in color, and with black and white illus. shot in color, footnotes, index of authors. ISBN: 978-972-565-442-2. $75.00
Nicely produced exhibition catalogue. Texts by Henrique Leitão, Luís Trapicos, and Cândido Marciano da Silva.


14. RAFAEL, Gina, and Luís Farinha Franco, eds. Joaquim Heliodor da Cunha Rivara, 1909-1879. Lisbon: Biblioteca Nacional, 2009. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 74 pp., (1 l.), illus., extensive footnotes and bibliography. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 978-972-565-449-1. $18.00
Texts by Luís Farinha Franco and Everton V. Machado.


15. [RESENDE, Garcia de]. Aida Fernanda Dias. Cancioneiro geral de Garcia de Resende. Vol. VI: Dicionário (comum, onomástico e toponímico). Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2003. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 878 pp., (4 ll.). One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972–27–1172–5. $110.00
This massive dictionary includes a "Vocabulário Português" (pp. 21-738); "Vocabulário Espanhol" (pp. 739-858); "Vocabulário Latino: (pp. 859-70); and "Vocabulário Hebraico" (pp. 871-8). An introduction occupies pp. 9-11, followed by a selective bibliography (pp. 13-7). See also item 232 in this Bulletin for vol V, A Temática; and see item 15 in this Bulletin for vol. VI, a Dicionário (comum, onomástico e toponímico), compiled by Dias.


16. SOUSA, Jorge Pais de. Uma biblioteca fascista em Portugal: publicações do período fascista existentes no Instituto de Estudos Italianos da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra. Preface by Luís Reis Torgal. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 2007. Colecção Estudos-Humanidades. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 144 pp., footnotes, index of authors. ISBN: 978-989-8074-10-2. $35.00
The catalogue, with 793 entries, occupies pp. 55-133. The heavily annoted introductory study (pp. 15-51) is most interesting.


17. VAZ, Francisco António Lourenço, ed. Os livros e as bibliotecas no espólio de D. Frei Manuel do Cenáculo: repertório de correspondência, róis de livros e doações a bibliotecas. Lisbon: Biblioteca Nacional, 2009. Colecção Fontes. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 669 pp., table and graph in text, indexes. One of 900 copies. ISBN: 978-972-565-446-0. $75.00




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