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SILVA (José Soares da). MEMORIAS para a História de Portugal Que Comprehendem o Governo DelRey D. Joaõ o I. do Anno de Mil e Trezentos e Oitenta e tres, até o anno de mil e quatrocentos e trinta e tres. [...]. Lisboa Occidental. 1730. - SILVA (José Soares da) MEMORIAS para a História de Portugal Que Comprehendem o Governo DelRey D. Joaõ o I. do Anno de Mil e Trezentos e Oitenta e tres, até o anno de mil e quatrocentos e trinta e tres. [...] . Lisboa Occidental: Na Officina de Joseph Antonio da Sylva, 1730. 4 v.; 1.º: [ ], a-l, A-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Ttt4, Vvv2, [96], 522 pp., 1 gravs.; 2.º: [ ], *, [ ], A-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Lll4, Mmm, [18] e de 523 a 980, 1 grav.; 3.º: [ ], *-**, A-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Yyy4, [24] e de 981 a 1524, 1 grav.; 4.º: [ ]4, *6, **, A-Z, Aa-Zz, Aa First edition. The first three volumes were published successively in 1730, 1731 and 1732, and the fourth – bringing together the collection of documents that authorize the Memoirs – in 1734. The second volume is illustrated with ten figurative heads representing episodes from the reign, and the third includes a head referring to the defense of Lisbon against the Castilians and a historical initial featuring the Baker of Aljubarrota. José Soares da Silva was born in Lisbon, the son of António Soares de Madureira, a noble knight and professed member of the Order of Christ, scribe of the Royal Guards and treasurer of the Royal Household, and Maria Josefa da Silva. He cultivated literature from a young age, distinguishing himself by his critique of the character and style of poets and historians, and was fluent in Latin, Castilian Spanish, and French, also composing poetry in Spanish that earned the acclaim of the intellectuals of the time. At the Academy established in the palace of the Count of Ericeira, D. Francisco Xavier de Menezes, he was a master of Politics. Among the first fifty academics who formed the Royal Academy of Portuguese History, he was chosen to write the historical memoirs of the reign of D. João I, a task to which he dedicated eight years of work. The Memoirs for the History of Portugal constitute the most extensive and well-documented account of the reign of King John I (1383-1433), published under the patronage of the Royal Academy of Portuguese History, founded by King John V, with the programmatic objective of producing royal histories rigorously grounded in archival documentation. The fourth volume, containing the collection of documents that authorize the assertions of the first three volumes, with references to the corresponding numbers, gives the work the character of a primary source still consulted today by historians of the period. Complete set. Estimated. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate ¶ Inocêncio, V, p. 137; Ameal, 2266