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VASCONCELOS (Jorge Ferreira de). COMEDIA Ulysippo. Lisboa. 1787. - VASCONCELOS (Jorge Ferreira de) COMEDIA Ulysippo . Terceira ediçam fielmente copiada por Bento Jozé de Sousa Farinha. Lisboa: Na Offic. da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1787. 8.º; 376 pp.; 165 mm. Third edition, the first from the presses of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, faithfully copied and prepared by Bento José de Sousa Farinha. The first edition predates 1561 and is now lost or unknown; the second printing, ”refined and corrected of some errors from the first, ” came from the workshop of Pedro Craesbeeck in Lisbon in 1618 – therefore, there is a gap of more than a century and a half between the two. The play Ulysippo is one of three comedies by Jorge Ferreira de Vasconcelos, along with Eufrosina and Aulegrafia , that form the core of 16th-century Portuguese humanist theatre. Set in Lisbon – Ulysippo, the Latin name for the city – the work vividly and meticulously portrays the customs and social types of the Lisbon court and bourgeoisie of the 16th century, in a style where the influence of Gil Vicente and classical Latin theatre combines with direct observation of contemporary urban life. The work was banned by the Inquisition, a circumstance that explains the rarity of 16th-century editions and the long interruption in the printed transmission of the text. Rare and highly valued. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate