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GÓIS (Damião de). CHRONICA do Serenissimo Senhor Rei D. Manoel. Lisboa. 1749. - GÓIS (Damião de) CHRONICA do Serenissimo Senhor Rei D. Manoel . Escrita por Damião de Goes, e novamente dada a luz [...] por Reinerio Bocache. Lisboa: Na Officina de Miguel Manescal da Costa, 1749. *-**2, A-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Zzz, Aaaa-Eeee4, Ffff2; [8], 610 pp.; 305 mm. Third edition of this important chronicle printed according to the second. The first edition was published in Lisbon by Francisco Correia in 1566-1567, and the second by António Alvares in 1619. Considered by many to be Damião de Góis's principal work, it is valued for its critical attitude, free from patronizing amplifications, and its stance on the violence against Jews has become celebrated. In the first part, it refers to events in Portugal and other European countries at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th centuries. In the second, third, and fourth parts, it recounts the feats overseas, in which men such as Vasco da Gama, Pedro Álvares Cabral, Duarte Pacheco, etc., were protagonists. The first part, upon publication, attracted the intervention of the censors, who altered the section concerning the nobility's conspiracy against King John II, some ethnographic passages deemed less compliant, assessments of the administration of King Afonso V and King Manuel, judgments on the relations between the King and Ferdinand the Catholic, etc. Rare and highly valued. Innocent II, 124 ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate