Na plauzivel, e festiva acclamação da Rainha N.S., a Muito Alta, e poderoza Senhora D. Maria. Ode.

N.p., n.pr., (1777).. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound. Caption Title. Some spotting. In good to very good condition. Contemporary ink inscriptions on final blank page. 7 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this ode honoring D. Maria I's ascension to the throne; begins: "Ode. /Ainda, Clio Divina, / Conservas essa lyra pendurada? …." There are references to D. Afonso I and the famous Cortês of Lamego of 1143, as well as to India and the Ganges. There are at least two other odes on the same subject, with 7 pp. and almost identical titles, one printed at the Offic. de Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo, and sold by Francisco Tavares at his shop in the Praça do Commercio, 1777, the other printed at the Offic. de José de Aquino Bulhoens. Luís Corrêa de França e Amaral (1725-1808), was magistrate with a degree from Coimbra University, and poet whose name in the Lisbon Arcadia was Melizeu Cylenio. He later joined the Academia de Bellas-Letras de Lisboa, or Nova-Arcadia, where he provoked the wrath of Bocage, who skewered him with pungent satire in several poems.*** Innocêncio V, 280-1 (attributing the work to Amaral); on the author, see also XVI, 13. Coimbra, Misceláneas 6510, 7727. Porbase locates six copies, two in the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, and four in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc. Not located in NUC.