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CASTRO (José da Gama e). NOVO (O) Principe ou o Espirito nos Governos Monarchicos. Rio de Janeiro. 1841. - CASTRO (José da Gama e) NOVO (O) Principe ou o Espirito nos Governos Monarchicos . Segunda Edição, revista e consideravelmente augmentada pelo Autor. Rio de Janeiro: Typ. Imp. e Const. de J. Villeneuve e Comp., 1841. 404 pp.; 205 mm. Second edition, ”revised and considerably augmented by the Author, ” printed in Rio de Janeiro during the four years that Gama e Castro resided there (1838-1842), after his exile in Italy - where he directed the legitimist newspaper O Precursor (1834-1837) - and periods spent in Switzerland and Germany. José da Gama e Castro (Sernancelhe, 1795 - Paris, 1873), a physician trained in Coimbra and Viscount of Sernancelhe by title granted by D. Miguel, followed the exiled king out of Portugal in December 1834, after the end of the Liberal Wars. Inocêncio, who owned a copy of this second edition, stated that he had never seen the first edition, published in Lisbon with fewer chapters, and about which he was unable to obtain more precise information. PORBASE also does not record a previous edition. The present edition, considerably enlarged, is therefore the definitive and complete form of the work. The New Prince is considered the last great treatise in the Portuguese language on political absolutism and the main expression of nineteenth-century Portuguese counter-revolutionary thought. Gama e Castro presents a vision of absolute monarchy as the only legitimate form of government in the Western world, applying the legitimist perspective to topics such as political science, economics, education, social welfare, and international relations. In the work, he predicted, four decades in advance, the instability of the Brazilian monarchy. Rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate ¶ Inocêncio, v.4, p. 359