Nova insistencia pela conservação e utilidade da tradição d'Ourique em resposta ao Eu e o Clero do Sr. Alexandre Herculano na parte que tem relação com este objecto por ....

Lisbon, Imprensa de Francisco Xavier de Souza, 1850.. FIRST EDITION. Large 8°, early plain green wrappers (faded). Some soiling on title page. In good to very good condition. Old blue-bordered paper tag on title page with shelfmark ("1358"). 37 pp., (1 l. errata). *** FIRST EDITION; a second appeared in the same year, with only 32 pages. In this pamphlet, part of the Eu e o Clero pamphlet war, the author politely disagrees with Herculano. Herculano responded with Solemnia verba, Cartas ao sr. A.L. Maggessi Tavares, 1850, and shortly thereafter Tavares replied to Herculano with Carta em resposta a outra do sr. A. herculano, que tem por titulo "Solemnia verba," 1850.In volume I of his Historia de Portugal, 1846, Alexandre Herculano called the Battle of Ourique a "pious fraud." Legend had it that D. Afonso saw an apparition of Christ at Ourique in 1139, and that year is traditionally used as the foundation date for the Portuguese monarchy. The clergy and the press attacked Herculano for lacking patriotism and piety. In Eu e o clero, 1850 (addressed to the cardinal-patriarch of Lisbon), Herculano denounced the fanaticism and ignorance of the Portuguese clergy. The controversy this set off continued for some years. Herculano's statements on the Battle of Ourique are today accepted as correct.The author (1806-1877), a native of in Extremoz (in the Alemtejo), was son of General Antonio Tavares Maggessi and himself a captain in the cavalry.*** On the author, see Innocêncio I, 190 (this work not listed); on Eu e o clero, see Innocêncio II, 243-6 (this is nº 10). Porbase locates a single copy, at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) repeats the copy cited in Porbase and a digitized copy. NUC: MH.