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AZEVEDO (Pedro de). O PROCESSO dos Távoras. Lisboa. 1921. - AZEVEDO (Pedro de) O PROCESSO dos Távoras . Prefaciado e anotado por Pedro de Azevedo. Lisboa: Biblioteca Nacional, 1921. [36], 228 pp.: il.; 270 mm. Publication of a previously unpublished manuscript, with a preface and notes by Pedro de Azevedo, curator of the manuscript section of the National Library, as part of the series ”Publications of the National Library. Unpublished Works I”. The volume brings together the transcription of codices, copies of records and decrees from the trial against the Duke of Aveiro and the Marquises of Távora, accused of participating in the attempted regicide against King José I, which occurred on the night of September 3, 1758, in Ajuda. The trial, conducted by the Junta da Inconfidência under the aegis of Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, then Secretary of State and future Marquis of Pombal, culminated in the public executions of January 13, 1759, one of the darkest and most controversial episodes of Portuguese political justice in the 18th century, also serving as an immediate pretext for the subsequent expulsion of the Jesuits from the Kingdom. The volume is illustrated with separate reproductions of period engravings depicting the executions of the defendants. An indispensable reference work for the study of this trial and Pombal's struggle against the high nobility. Unusual. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate