DEL CIELO, VIOLANTE. Rimas Varias

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $550

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author

(SEPHARDICA)

printer

Maurry

Place

Rouen

Publication

1646

Description

FIRST EDITION

references

Palau 57539

summary

This collection of poems by the Dominican nun Violante do Céu (1601-1693) of the Lisboan Monastery De La Rosa, is dedicated to the Portuguese explorer Admiral Vasco de Gama. The publisher of the work was the Portuguese diplomat and author Manuel Fernandes de Villa-Real (1608-1652) who was was burnt to death in Lisbon on December 1st 1652 for the crime of Judaizing. See Ramos-Coelho, Manuel Fernandes Vila Real eo seu processo na Inquisiçaõ de Lisboa (Lisbon, 1894), p.12

pp. 16, 190. Signature on title, dampstained, some marginal worming. Contemporary calf, worn. 8vo

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