Bidspirit auction | DURÃO (António Figueira). OPERA Omnia.

DURÃO (António Figueira). OPERA Omnia. Lisbonæ. 1635. - DURÃO (António Figueira) OPERA Omnia . Lisbonæ: ex Typographia Georgii Rodrigues, 1635. ¶8, A-F8, G4; [8], 51, [1] ff.; 145 mm. According to Inocêncio, António Figueira Durão, born in Lisbon and renowned as the ”Orpheus of the century” for his competence in Latin poetry, studied Philosophy and Jurisprudence at the University of Coimbra, graduating in Civil Law; upon returning to the Kingdom, he was a judge in Mourão and, later, appointed magistrate in Maranhão, where he died in 1642, a few months after his investiture. His Latin works were preserved in this extremely rare volume, which brings together the Ignatiados , a sacred epic poem about Saint Ignatius of Loyola, and the Laurus Parnassea , a collection of laudatory poems dedicated to numerous Portuguese poets (from Camões and Sá de Miranda to Violante do Céu and others), demonstrating his ambition to insert Portuguese literature into a pantheon celebrated in a humanist and neo-Latin key. According to Barbosa, the two works had separate editions, which, according to Inocêncio and Pereira Caldas, was a mistake. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate ¶ Barbosa, v. 1, 276; Inocêncio, v.8, p.150; Palha, 2, 741