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FONSECA (Faustino da). IGNEZ de Castro: Romance Historico. Lisboa. 1901. - FONSECA (Faustino da) IGNEZ de Castro: Romance Historico . Illustrações de Augusto Pina e V. da Fonseca. Lisboa: Typographia Lusitana-Editora de Arthur Brandão, 1901. 2 v.: 478, VI pp.; 478, [6] pp.: il.; 225 mm. A historical novel by Faustino da Fonseca (Angra do Heroísmo, 1871-Lisbon, 1918), journalist, writer and republican politician, director of the National Library of Lisbon between 1911 and 1918, author of a vast production of historical novels on national themes. The theme of Inês de Castro, one of the most recurrent in Portuguese literature and theatre since the 16th and 17th centuries, is treated here in a popular novelistic key, in the spirit of 19th-century historical fiction inspired by Alexandria. The work was originally published in 1900 in 4 volumes by the same publisher, with illustrations by D. Virgínia da Fonseca, Augusto Pina and Bemvindo Ceia, and quickly sold out. The present edition in 2 volumes corresponds to the second edition, in a popular format, which appeared in 1901-1903. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate