Bidspirit auction | COUTO (Diogo do). DÉCADA Quinta

COUTO (Diogo do). DÉCADA Quinta da Ásia. Coimbra. 1936. - COUTO (Diogo do) DÉCADA Quinta da Ásia . Texte inédit, publié d’aprés un manuscrit de la Bibliothéque de l’Université de Leyde par Marcus de Jong. Coimbra: Biblioteca da Universidade, 1936. 768 pp.; 255 mm. This edition of the complete and previously unpublished text of Diogo do Couto's Fifth Decade of Asia , based on the manuscript preserved in the Library of Leiden University, preserves the original wording of the work, prior to the mutilation suffered by the 1612 printed edition at the hands of the inquisitorial censorship. The restitution of this complete text, collated and prepared by the Dutch philologist Marcus de Jong, with an extensive introductory study, has allowed the recovery of passages suppressed in the 17th-century version, of great interest to the history of censorship on Portuguese historiography of the 16th century. The Decade recounts the achievements of the Portuguese in Asia during the governments of Nuno da Cunha, D. Garcia de Noronha, D. Estêvão da Gama, and Martim Afonso de Sousa, continuing the Decades series begun by João de Barros. This edition is subsidized by the Institute for Higher Culture. This is a rare edition on the market, of great interest for the study of the historiography of Portuguese expansion in the East. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate