Panegyrico, que á muito alta, muito poderosa Rainha Nossa Senhora, a Senhora D. Mariana Victoria, consagra no dia felicissimo dos seus annos ....

Lisbon, na Officina de Lino da Silva Godinho, 1779.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, later wrappers with author, title, and date in manuscript on front cover. Small woodcut royal arms of Portugal on title page. Generous margins. Some dampstains. Overall good condition. Old rectangular paper tag with red border, serrated edges and manuscript shelfmark in ink. 15 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Includes an ode, a sonnet and an oration in honor of D. Mariana Victoria's birthday.D. Mariana Victoria (1718-1781), eldest daughter of Philip V of Spain, was married in 1729 to D. José, Principe do Brasil, who ascended to the throne in 1750 as D. José I. She bore D. José four daughters and ruled as regent for her husband from 1776-1777, after he suffered a series of strokes. D. José was succeeded in 1777 by his eldest daughter, D. Maria I, to whom D. Mariana Victoria acted as an advisor.As queen mother, D. Mariana Victoria bent her formidable energies to improving relations with Spain, which had deteriorated due to disagreements over Portuguese and Spanish colonies in the Americas. In 1777-1778 she went on a year-long trip to Spain, during which she arranged the Treaty of El Pardo, signed on March 11, 1778, which aimed to settle differences that had been building since the Treaty of Tordesillas, most recently the incursions of the São Paulo bandeirantes into Spanish territories in South America. Present-day Uruguay and parts of Paraguay were confirmed as Spanish, while vast parts of the Amazon basin were recognized as Brazilian. The treaty was cemented by a double marriage between two of D. Mariana Victoria's grandchildren and two children of the Spanish royal family. (One of these couples, the future D. João VI and the Infanta Carlota Joaquina, were married in 1785 and turned out to be passionately incompatible.)João Dias Talaia Souto-Maior (d. 1795) was a member of the Academia dos Obsequiosos, which was based in his own home and under the protection of D. Pedro III (as stated on the title page of this work). Innocêncio reports that Talaia Souto-Maior was also an extremely skilled bullfighter (!) who published a collection of poetry (Rimas, 1790) and edited the anthology Sessões litterarias dos alumnos da Academia dos Obsequiosos, do logar de Sacavem, 1790-1791 (3 volumes). This poem is presumably one of the works Innocêncio uncharacteristically fails to catalogue: "varias poesias, e outras miudezas avulsamente impressas, de que me pareceu escusado fazer aqui menção especial." Talaia Souto-Maior also published birthday greetings and an oration to D. Mariana Victoria in 1778, when she was in Spain negotiating the Treaty of El Pardo.*** Innocêncio III, 362; VII, 257; X, 238. Coimbra, Miscelâneas 8310. Not located in Porbase. Not located in Jisc. Not located in NUC.