Ecloga piscatoria. Escreveu - publicou Sejo Portuense.

Porto, Typographia Commercial, 1861.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Tall 12º, original yellow printed wrappers (spotted and soiled, spine chipping). Title-page wood-engraving of Masonic symbols, incorporating the square and compasses, the sun, the moon and a hexagram in a circle (rather than the usual pentagram). Uncut and largely unopened. Some light soiling, mostly marginal. In very good condition. (1 blank l.), 116 pp., (1 blank l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this pastoral poem featuring fishing rather than shepherding. The interlocutors are Pamphilo, Elmano, Ulijo, and Sejo.The model for this poem goes back to Jacopo Sannazaro (1458-1530). Sannazaro's Arcadia, a classic of Italian humanist literature, inspired centuries of poetry on the theme of an idyllic land inhabited by shepherd-poets. Sannazaro also published five Eclogae piscatoriae modeled on Virgil's Georgics, in which he took as subject the Bay of Naples.José Manuel Teixeira de Carvalho (about whom Innocêncio had no biographical information) published under his own name a translation of a legal treatise by Danou (Tentativa de direito publico constitucional ácerca das garantias individuaes, Porto, 1844) and a drama, O Mestre de Aviz, Porto, 1851. He also edited an anthology of works by Alexandre de Gusmão, which he signed with his initials: Collecção de varios escritos ineditos politicos e litterarios, Porto, 1841. During the 1770s and 1780s, several Portuguese authors published eclogae piscatoriae.*** Guerra Andrade, Dicionário de pseudónimos, p. 241. Not in Innocêncio; on other works by the author, see V, 11 and XIII, 74. Porbase locates one copy each at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and Biblioteca Central da Marinha. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by Porbase. NUC: MH.