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CACEGAS (Fr. Luís). VIDA de Dom Frei Bertolameu dos Martyres da Orde[m] dos Pregadores Arcebispo e Senhor de Braga Primas das Espanhas. Viana. 1619. - CACEGAS (Fr. Luís) VIDA de Dom Frei Bertolameu dos Martyres da Orde[m] dos Pregadores Arcebispo e Senhor de Braga Primas das Espanhas . Repartidas em seis livros com a solenidade de sua tresladação [...]. Reformada em estilo & ordem & ampliada em sucessos & particularidades de novo achadas por Frei Luís de Sousa da mesma Ordem & filho do convento de Benfica. Viana: por Niculao [sic] Carvalho, 1619. [cruz cristo]4, A-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa6, Bbb5; retrato, portada, [4], 280 [i.e. 282], [5] ff.; 260 mm. First edition. First biography of D. Frei Bartolomeu dos Mártires (1514–1590), Archbishop of Braga, a leading figure in the Council of Trent and the Catholic Reformation in Portugal, beatified in 2001 and canonized by Pope Francis on July 5, 2019. The text, composed by Friar Luís de Cácegas, chronicler of the Order of Preachers, who left it unpublished at the time of his death in 1610, was reformed and expanded by Friar Luís de Sousa, to whom the definitive redaction is attributed. It is the first work of the great prose writer, and its style has made it one of the classic texts of the Portuguese language, reprinted several times. It concludes with the news of the transfer of the mortal remains of the archbishop. Printed in Viana, at the expense of the town itself, where the archbishop had spent his last years in the Dominican convent, by Nicolau Carvalho, royal printer. Illustrated with a cover and engraved portrait of the subject, the latter attributed to Juan Schorquens. ”This edition is rare and the most prized of all” (Inocêncio). Very rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate ¶ Inocêncio, v. 5, p. 327; v. 13, p. 353; Barbosa, 3, 67