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VASCONCELOS (António de). BRÁS Garcia Mascarenhas. Coimbra. 1922. - VASCONCELOS (António de) BRÁS Garcia Mascarenhas . / Estudo de Investigação Histórica. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 1922. 214 pp.: il.; 285 mm. First edition. António de Vasconcelos (S. Paio de Gramaços, 1860 - Coimbra, 1941), priest, doctor of Theology and Letters from the University of Coimbra, was the first director of the Faculty of Letters of that University (1911-1927) and the first president of the Portuguese Academy of History, to which he gave his name to one of its chairs. His work was mainly dedicated to the local history of Coimbra, examples of which are the biography of D. Inês de Castro and the Various Writings Relating to the University of Coimbra (1938-1941). This study is a reference biographical and genealogical investigation of Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas (Avô, c. 1596 - 1656/1662), a 17th-century poet born in Avô and author of the epic poem Viriato Trágico . The work reconstructs the adventurous life of the poet – a soldier, a nobleman of unstable fortune, linked to the Beira region and Sabugal – based on parish records, autograph documents, and unpublished archival sources. Profusely illustrated with facsimiles of signatures and records, a reproduction of the title page of the first edition of Viriato Trágico , coats of arms, photographs of buildings and archaeological pieces, and family trees on fold-out sheets. (Estimated.) ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate