Camões defendido; e o editor da edição de 1779, e o censor deste julgados sem paixão em huma carta dada á luz por ….

Lisbon, Na Regia Officna Typografica, 1784.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, disbound, loose in later brown wrappers. Typographical headpiece and woodcut factotum on p. 3. In good condition. Significant contemporary marginal ink annotations, as well as 28 lines of commentary in the same hand on the blank bottom quarter of p. 48 and the recto of the inserted blank leaf following. 48 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this response to the criticisms of Father José Clemente to the 1779–1780 edition of Camões' Obras (reprinted in 1782–1783), which were expressed in Father Clemente's Carta de um amigo a outro, em que se fórma juizo da edição novissima do poema … 1783. The caption title on page 3 reads "Reparos, ou dúvidas sobre as censuras, que na carta de hum amigo a outro se fazem a edição dos Lusiadas de Luis de Camões, publicada no anno de 1779." In addition to the present work, Father Thomas José de Aquino, who had written some introductory matter for the previously mentioned edition of the Obras, published in 1784 Discurso critico, em que se defende a nova edição …. Father Clemente responded in 1784 with Juiz do juizo imparcial do moderno anonymo …. D. José Valério da Cruz (Covilhã in 1749–Portalegre 1826), an Oratorian, became Bishop of Portalegre in 1799. He served in the 1822 Côrtes.*** Imprensa Nacional 315. José do Canto 953. Pina Martins Os Lusíadas 810. Innocêncio V, 150; see also V, 458; XIII, 235; IV, 290–1; VII, 350; and finally XIV, 99–106. Martinho da Fonseca p. 69. Guerra Andrade p. 216. See Grande enciclopedia VIII, 167. Porbase locates eight copies, all in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Jisc locates a single copy in the British Library.