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[RIBADANEYRA (Pe. Pedro de), trad. BARRETO (João Franco)]. FLOS Sanctorum, Historia das Vidas, e Obras Insignes dos Santos. Lisboa Occidental. 1728. - [RIBADANEYRA (Pe. Pedro de), trad. BARRETO (João Franco)] FLOS Sanctorum, Historia das Vidas, e Obras Insignes dos Santos . Pelo M. R. P. Pedro de Ribadaneyra, Religioso da Companhia de Jesus, e outros Autores. Primeyra Parte [e Segunda Parte]. Tradusida da Lingua Castelhana em a Nossa Portuguesa pelo Licenciado Joaõ Franco Barreto. Offerecida à Sacratissima Virgem Maria venerada na sua Angelica Imagem da Madre de Deos, a quem a Piedade Christã Solenniza no seu Real Convento das Religiosas de Xabregas. Lisboa Occidental: Na Officina Ferreyriana, 1728. [12], 646, [6], 482 pp.; fol.; 280 mm. Pedro de Ribadeneyra (Toledo, 1526–Madrid, 1611), a Jesuit and one of the most important hagiographers of the Counter-Reformation, was a disciple of Ignatius of Loyola and the author of a vast body of historical and spiritual work. His Flos Sanctorum, originally published in Castilian Spanish, became the most widely disseminated Iberian hagiographic work of the 16th and 17th centuries, with dozens of editions throughout Europe. The Portuguese translation is the work of João Franco Barreto (Lisbon, 1600 – post. 1674), a graduate in Canon Law, embassy secretary in France, poet, polymath, and one of the most distinguished Portuguese translators of the 17th century, also the author of a translation of Virgil's Aeneid and important studies on Camões. The present edition, printed by Manuel Lopes Ferreira at his Officina Ferreyriana in Lisbon, is the third edition of this Portuguese translation—the first being from 1674 (António Craesbeeck de Mello) and the second from 1704 (Manuel Lopes Ferreira). Inocêncio did not see a copy of this third edition, mentioning it only through information from others. Very rare edition. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate ¶ Inocêncio, v.III, pp. 378-379