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GÓIS (Damião de). CHRONICA do Felicissimo Rey Dom Emanuel da Gloriosa Memoria. Em Lisboa. 1619. - GÓIS (Damião de) CHRONICA do Felicissimo Rey Dom Emanuel da Gloriosa Memoria . A qual por mandado do Serenissimo Principe, o Infante D. Henrique, o Cardeal de Portugal, do Titulo dos Santos Quatro Coroados Damiam de Goes colegio, e compos de novo [...]. Em Lisboa: Por Antonio Alvarez, 1619. 8.º; []/2, A-K/8, L/4, M-S/8, T/4, V-Z, Aa-Xx/8, Yy/4; [2], 347, [1] ff.; 285 mm. This is the second edition of this important chronicle, printed in accordance with the second version. The first edition was published in Lisbon by Francisco Correia in 1566-1567. Considered by many to be Damião de Góis's principal work, it is valued for its critical attitude, free from patronizing amplifications, and is celebrated for its stance on the violence against Jews. The first part recounts events in Portugal and other European countries at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th centuries. The second, third, and fourth parts relate the exploits overseas, in which figures such as Vasco da Gama, Pedro Álvares Cabral, Duarte Pacheco, etc., were protagonists. The first part, upon publication, attracted censorship, which altered the section concerning the nobility's conspiracy against King John II, some ethnographic passages deemed less appropriate, assessments of the administration of King Afonso V and King Manuel, judgments on the relationship between the King and Ferdinand the Catholic, etc. Rare and prized. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate ¶ Inocêncio, II, p.124; Samodães, 1398; Pinto Matos, p. 303