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CORDEIRO (P. Valério A.). Memórias da ÚLtima Condessa de Atouguia. Pontevedra. 1916. - CORDEIRO (P. Valério A.) Memórias da ÚLtima Condessa de Atouguia . Manuscrito Autobiographico inédito com um estudo preliminar do P. Valerio A. Cordeiro. Pontevedra: S. Teresa, 1916. 52 pp.; 250 mm. First edition. Publication, with a preliminary study by the Jesuit Father Valério A. Cordeiro, of the autobiographical memoirs of Dona Mariana Bernarda de Távora, last Countess of Atouguia, eldest daughter of the Marquises of Távora. The text was written at the behest of her confessor, around 1783, and the original manuscript is now lost, so this edition is the primary source of the text. The narrative opens when the author was fifteen years old and focuses on the spiritual direction she received from Father Gabriel Malagrida, followed by an account of the events after the assassination attempt against King José I in September 1758, and her confinement in the Grilo Convent following the Távora affair. It is a rare first-person, female account of one of the most controversial episodes of King José's reign and the Pombaline era. The edition was printed in Pontevedra, Galicia, where the Society of Jesus took refuge after the establishment of the Republic and the Separation of Nations law, and it fits into the Catholic and pro-Jesuit apologetics of the period. It was reprinted in Braga in 1917. Uncommon and highly regarded. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate