Add MS 8713

FERNANDO CORRÊA DE LACERDA: Catastrophe de Portugal; circa 1669. Italian transl. The Italian translation of a polemic work on the reign and deposition of King Alphonso VI of Portugal written in Portuguese by Dom Fernando Corrêa de Lacerda, Bishop of Oporto and counsellor of Pedro, the Prince Regent. The aim of Lacerda's work was to justify the action of Pedro, who in 1667 had deposed and imprisoned his brother Alphonso VI and assumed the regency. The Italian translation of Lacerda's work is here attributed to Maino Corvioni Caggiano. The original text in Portuguese was published under the pseudonym of Leandro Dória Cáceres de Faria as Catastrophe de Portugal na deposição d'el Rei D. Affonso o Sexto, et subrogação do Princepe D. Pedro o Unico, justificada nas calamidades publicas, Escrita para justificação dos Portugueses, por Leandro Dorea Caceres e Faria (Lisbon: Acusta de Miguel Manescal mercador de Liuros na Rua Nova, 1669); B.L. copy 281.e.31. A MS. copy of the original Portuguese text is in Add. 15589. The present MS. is entitled (f. 1) 'Catastrophe di Portogallo nella depositione del Rè Don Alfonso Sesto et subrogatione del Prencipe Don Pietro Unico / Giustificata sopra le Calamità Publiche Scritta per giustificatione delli Portoghesi da Leandro Dorea Caceres et Farea / Tradotta dalla Lingua Portoghese da Maino Corvioni Caggiano'. Inc. (f. 4) 'Catastrophe di Portogallo / Come la fama degl'humani avvenimenti', expl. (f. 249v) 'l'intiero Mondo la total Ditione dell'eterno suo Imperio'. As in the printed edition, the text is preceded (ff. 2-3) by the dedication to the reader, inc. 'Dedicatoria al lettore / Questa è la prima volta che il Prologo, et la dedicatoria non si separano'. Armorial bookplate of 5th Earl of Guilford with shelfmark 'L/17/A' (front pastedown). '512' in pencil in top left corner of f. i verso. Purchased, together with Add. 8710, 8711, 8712, and 8714, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 512 (part).

Paper; ff. 249+iii. Old number in ink '82' in bottom margin, on the left. 309 x 210mm. Several Italian hands. Early 19th-cent. binding of vellum with decorated pastedowns and contiguous flyleaves.