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Portuguese shipwreck turned into literature

CORTE REAL, Jeronimo.
Naufragio, e lastimoso successo da perdiçaõ de Manoel de Sousa de sepulveda, e dona lianor de sá, sua mulher, e filhos, vindo da India para este reyno Náo chamada o Galiaõ grande S. João, que se perdeo no cabo de Boa-Esperança, na terra do natal; E a peregrinaçaõ, que tiveraõrodeando terras de Cafres, mais de 300 legoas, té sua morte.





Lisboa, Na Typografia Rollandiana, 1783. 8vo. Modern marbled calf with richly gilt spine. XIV, (1, 1 blank), 351 (1 blank) pp.

Second edition of one of the most important books in the Portuguese language by the poet (painter & musician) Jeronimo Corte Real (ca. 1533-1590). Next to Camoens Corte Real is considered the greatest epic poet in Portuguese literature.
A narrative of the disastrous shipwreck and ultimate fate of Manoel de Sousa de Sepulveda, of Donna Leonora, his wife, and their children on their voyage from India to Portugal, on board the great galleon "Saint John", which was lost at the Cape of Good Hope on the Coast of Natal. Together with an account of the journey which they made throughout the land of the Kaffirs for more than 300 leagues, until their death. Composed in heroic verse and octave rhyme by Corte Real. The naufragio was and continues to be by far the most popular of several peculiarly Portuguese contemporary accounts of maritime disasters, later collected and published under the title Historia tragico-maritima.

Good copy.
Innocêncio III, 262-3 and X, 128; Anselmo 803 (first edition); Europe Informed p. 156 (first edition).

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Literary History  Literature  Portugal  Shipwrecks 

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