San' Gonçalo de Amarante, Nascimento, Criação, Vida, Morte e Milagres, Poema Lyrico em seis cantos com nota dos logares da Terra Sancta, por onde o Sancto andou, composta em verso octosyllabo por ....

Braga, Livraria Escolar de Cruz & C.ª, n.d. (1920s?).. 8°, original tan printed wrappers (faded, spine splitting, small pieces of corners defective). Browned but not brittle. Overall in good condition, if just barely. 20 pp., 206 pp. *** Third or fourth edition of this hagiographical poem, preceded by editions of Lisbon, 1627, and Lisbon, 1691. The 20-page section at the beginning has a separate title page: Francisco Lopes, poeta lisbonense em auro popular na epocha seiscentista, with the same imprint as the main text, which matches that on the front wrapper. This introduction, original to the present work, is signed and dated in print on p. 20: Braga, 10 Junho 1893, Pereira-Caldas (probably José Joaquim da Silva Pereira Caldas, Caldas de Vizela, 1818-Braga, 1903—see Grande enciclopédia, XXI, 190-2). São Gonçalo de Amarante (1187-1259), protector of marriages, traveled for 14 years in the Holy Land, became famous for his miraculous efforts in the construction of a bridge over the Tamega River, and died in the town of Amarante in northern Portugal, where his festival is still celebrated.The author, Francisco Lopes, was a bookseller and binder in Lisbon. *** For other editions, see Innocêncio II, 420; Pinto de Matos p. 356; Arouca L341. Also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, I, 378-9. Porbase locates one copy, at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, giving the date as 192- ; it locates no copy of the Lisbon, 1627 edition, and only two of the Lisbon, 1691 edition. No edition located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the editions cited by Porbase.