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PINA (Ruy de). CHRONICA d'El-Rei D. Affonso III. Lisboa: Bibliotheca de Classicos Portuguezes, 1907. - PINA (Ruy de) CHRONICA d'El-Rei D. Affonso III . Bibliotheca de Classicos Portuguezes, proprietario e fundador Mello d'Azevedo, volume LIV. Lisboa: Escriptorio da Bibliotheca de Classicos Portuguezes, 1907. 78, [2] pp.; 185 mm. (Bibliotheca de Classicos Portuguezes, LIV). Binding with leather spine; slightly trimmed; without boards. Ruy de Pina (c. 1440-1522), official chronicler of the Portuguese crown, wrote chronicles of several Portuguese kings by royal commission. The Chronicle of Afonso III covers the reign of the third king of Portugal (1248-1279), a period marked by the conclusion of the Reconquista with the definitive incorporation of the Algarve, and by the strengthening of royal authority over ecclesiastical power. Volume LIV of the Bibliotheca de Classicos Portuguezes, a series of reprints of Portuguese classical texts founded and directed by Mello d'Azevedo in Lisbon.