O Alfageme de Santarem, ou A Espada do Condestavel: drama em cinco actos.

[Colophon] (Rio de Janeiro), Typ. Imp. e Const. de J. Villeneuve, 1842.. Folio (26.5 x 18.5 cm.), plain brown wrappers. Caption title. 2 columns. Browned. 51 pp. *** Rare Rio de Janeiro printing of this important drama, described by Bell as "remarkable," and of special interest for its characters. It was first printed in Lisbon, 1842. Contemporaries recognized at once the political significance of the play, with its conflict between the king, the nobility and the people, and the authorities moved to prevent its performance.Almeida Garrett (1799-1854) was a man of great talent and far-reaching interests: "As journalist, founder and editor of several short-lived newspapers, as a stylist and master of prose, his country's chief lyric poet in the first half of the nineteenth century . . . and greatest dramatist since the sixteenth; as politician and one of the most eloquent of all Portugal's orators, an enthusiastic if unscientific folk-lorist, a novelist, critic, diplomatist, soldier, jurist and judge, Garrett played many parts and with success" (Bell, Portuguese Literature pp. 288-89).Provenance: Luiz do Rêgo Barreto da Fonseca Magalhães da Costa e Silva, 1º Conde do Almarjão (1874-1950).*** Innocêncio III, 315: mentioning that the play was reprinted in the Archivo Teatral of Rio de Janeiro in 1842, but without further information. Bell, Portuguese Literature, pp. 287-92. Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) pp. 764-65 and 749-83. Not located in NUC.