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Biography of the well-known martyr Ignacio de Azevedo

BEAUVAIS, Gilles-François.
La vie du venerable pere Ignace Azevedo, de la compagnie de Jesus. L'histoire de son martyre, & de celui de trente-neuf autres de la même Compagnie. Le tout tiré des procès-verbaux dressés pour leur canonisation. Dédiée au Roi de Pologne.

With woodcut vignette on title and some head- and tailpieces.

With woodcut vignette on title and some head- and tailpieces.

With woodcut vignette on title and some head- and tailpieces.

With woodcut vignette on title and some head- and tailpieces.



Paris, Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1744. 12mo, with quires in 4 & 8. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with ornamental flowers, red morocco title label lettered in gold. With woodcut vignette on title and some head- and tailpieces. XLIII, (5), 300 pp.

First edition of the biography of the martyr Ignacio de Azevedo by Father Gilles-François Beauvais (1695-1773), who modelled his book on the original Italian biography by Father Cabral (pseudonym of Giulio Cesare Cordara) (1704-1785), published in Rome in 1743 under the title Relazione della vita e martirio del venerabile padre Ignazio de Azevedo (De Bucher Sommervogel II, 1415; Borba de Moraes I, p. 213; Palau 260614). To our edition, dedicated to King Stanislans of Poland, several additions were added, for example the "Martyre du Vénérable Père Diaz et de ses Compagnons", pp. 193-262.
The work is devoted to the life of the martyr Ignatius de Azevedo from Porto (1528-1570), who worked in Brazil as Visitator for the Jesuit Order. On 15 July 1570, he was killed near the Canary  Islands together with his 39 companions at sea by French Calvinist pirates. In 1854, these "40 martyrs of Brazil" were canonized. Gilles-François Beauvais was a French Jesuit and ascetic writer. He joined the Society of Jesus on 16 August 1709 and taught  belles-lettres, rhetorics and philosophy. In 1759, he was confessor of Mme Louise de France. He preached the Advent at the Court in 1744.
In the same year, the original work of Cordara was also translated into Spanish, and in 1856, a German translation was published. A second edition of our book was published in Bruxelles in 1854, under the title Les quarantes Martyrs ou vie du Bienheureux Ignace d'Azevedo. The martyrdom of Ignacio de Azevedo and his companions inspired many literary works up to this day.

Good copy.- (some faint marginal staining).
Borba de Moraes I, p. 93; De Backer-Sommervogel II, p. 1080, 4; Chadenat, 754; not in Sabin, nor in Brasilien-Bibliothek der Robert Bosch GmbH

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Biography  Brazil  Jesuits 

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