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[LACERDA (D. Fernando Correa de)], pseud. CACERES E FARIA (Leandro Dorea). CATASTROPHE de Portugal na deposição d'El-Rei D. Affonso o Sexto, & subrogação do Princepe D. Pedro o Unico, justificada nas calamidadees publicas. Em Lisboa. 1669. - [LACERDA (D. Fernando Correa de)], pseud. CACERES E FARIA (Leandro Dorea) CATASTROPHE de Portugal na deposição d'El-Rei D. Affonso o Sexto, & subrogação do Princepe D. Pedro o Unico, justificada nas calamidadees publicas . Escrita para justificação dos Portugueses por Leandro Dorea Caceres e Faria. Em Lisboa: A custa de Miguel Manescal, 1669. 4.º; A-Z, Aa-Kk/4, Ll/2; 268 pp.; 200 mm. First edition, published the year after the deposition of King Afonso VI and the ascension to power of Prince Pedro as Regent. Fernando Correia de Lacerda (Tojal, diocese of Viseu, 1628 - Lisbon, 1685), Doctor of Canon Law from the University of Coimbra, Inquisitor and Deputy of the General Council of the Holy Office and Bishop of Porto between 1673 and 1683, published this work under the pseudonym Leandro Dorea Caceres e Faria, a cautious precaution in a still unstable political climate. The Catastrophe of Portugal is one of the most important political texts of 17th-century Portugal: it is an apology for the deposition of King Afonso VI, incapacitated and stripped of effective power by the Count of Castelo Melhor, and for the legitimization of the regency of Pedro, the king's brother and future Pedro II. The work seeks to justify to European opinion – and to the Portuguese themselves – the legality and necessity of an act that, by its nature, required theological, legal, and political justification. Rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate