Magoas amorosas de Elmano, idyllio … Terceira edição.

Lisbon, Typ. Rollandiana, 1824.. 8°, stitched, traces of early pink wrappers. Some light soiling and spotting. 12, [5]-19 pp. *** Third edition, later issue (?) of the Magoas amorosas, previously published Lisbon 1805 and 1821. Manoel Maria de Barbosa du Bocage (Setúbal, 1765-Lisbon, 1805), an accomplished Arcadian poet with strong romantic tendencies, wrote a great deal of occasional verse - although Bell thinks he was capable of much greater things. Beckford considered Bocage a powerful genius. Bocage's mother's father was a French naval officer in the service of Portugal. Scarred by the death of his mother when he was ten, Bocage joined an infantry regiment at age 14, then switched to the navy and departed for India in 1786, where he spent several years. At Damão he deserted and wandered for years through China, Macao and Goa. Back in Portugal by 1790, he joined the Academia de Bellas Letras or Nova Arcadia (where his name was "Amano Sadino"), but left it three years later. Although they were once friends and fellow Arcadians, José Agostinho de Macedo and Bocage became bitter enemies. Bocage made other enemies among the Nova Arcadia, some of whom denounced him to the police chief Pina Manique. He was tried and imprisoned in 1797 on the basis of the anti-monarchical and anti-Catholic tone of his poems. After his release, he spent the rest of his life mostly doing translations, at which he was quite skilled.*** Innocêncio VI, 50: without collation; on Barbosa du Bocage, see VI, 45, 454; XVI, 260, 412; XVIII, 44. Bell, Portuguese Literature pp. 277-8. Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) pp. 714-7. Porbase locates a single copy of the first edition, Lisbon, 1805; two of the Lisbon, 1821 edition; and one of this third edition (with 12 pp.), all at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Jisc does not locate copies of any edition. NUC: IU (collating 12 pp.).*** BOUND WITH:  [SOUSA, Antonio Joaquim Coelho de]. Despedida de Alcino a sua Anarda: offerecida a hum amigo por ... 8º. Overall very good. Pages 5-19, i.e., incomplete, lacking pp. 1-4, including the title page. * Innocêncio VIII, 181: mentions editions of Coimbra, 1787 (8º, 16 pp.) and Lisbon, 1821 (8º, without collation). According to Porbase, an edition appeared in Lisbon, 1821 (16 pp.). Not located in Copac. Not located in OCLC.