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MELO (D. Francisco Manuel de). OBRAS Morales de Don Francisco Manuel a la Serenissima Reyna Catalina Reyna de la Gran Bretaña. Roma. 1664. - MELO (D. Francisco Manuel de) OBRAS Morales de Don Francisco Manuel a la Serenissima Reyna Catalina Reyna de la Gran Bretaña . Parte Primera; Segunda Parte del Primer Tomo. Roma: Por el Falco; por el Falco y Varesio, 1664. 2 v.: [40], 486 pp.; [2], 238, 248, 184 pp.; 240 mm. First edition, printed in Rome during the author's last diplomatic mission, published in the same year as the Family Letters . D. Francisco Manuel de Melo (Lisbon, November 23, 1608 - Lisbon, August 24, 1666), a nobleman with ties to the House of Braganza, studied at the Jesuit College of Santo Antão, pursued a military career in the Flanders campaigns and the Iberian Wars, and actively participated in the literary life of the Madrid court, where he befriended Quevedo. Imprisoned in 1644 on charges of complicity in a homicide, he remained detained for about nine years; after exile to Brazil (1655-1658), he returned to Portugal, attended the Academia dos Generosos, and in 1663 left for Rome on a diplomatic mission for D. Afonso VI, negotiating papal recognition and the royal marriage. It was during his stay in Rome that he oversaw the printing of his works, planning a complete edition in ten volumes, which his death in 1666 prevented him from completing. The Moral Works constitute the first volume of this editorial project and bring together texts of a moral and philosophical nature written in Castilian Spanish, dedicated to Queen Catherine of Braganza, Queen Consort of England since her marriage to Charles II in 1662. Volume I is divided into Part One and Part Two: Part One contains the Victory of Man , a treatise on the mastery of passions, and other moral texts; Part Two brings together works of diverse nature, including treatises on moral and political doctrine. Very rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate ¶ Inocêncio, II, 437-442; Barbosa, II, 182-188