Portugal perante a revolução de Hespanha: considerações sobre o futuro da politica portugueza no ponto de vista da democracia iberica.

Lisbon, Typographia Portugueza, 1868.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original green printed wrappers (spine somewhat defective). Some light foxing, more prevalent on title page. Uncut. Overall in good to very good condition. Small square paper tag tipped on to upper inner corner of front wrapper with old ink (shelfmark?) "559 // L N" [?]. 39 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this early work by one of the most important Portuguese poets, essayists, and political thinkers. Here, in one of his earliest political writings, Anthero demonstrates his democratic and republican values. Like several other members of the "generation of 70", he favored some sort of Iberian union.Anthero [Tarquínio] de Quental (1842-1891) is recognized by Saraiva & Lopes as "o principal mentor da geração de 70 nas suas origens, simultaneamente polemista, poeta, doutrinário e até certo ponto caudilho" (p. 915). Bell adds that he was "that rare thing in Portuguese literature, a poet who thinks" (p. 328). Born in Ponta Delgada in the Azores, he studied law at Coimbra from 1858 to 1864. He soon became a socialist, and after working in Paris and traveling in the United States, played an active part in the socialist movement in Lisbon. With the publication of such works as Odas modernas, 1865, Primaveras românticas, 1875, and Sonetos, 1881, he became one of the leading Portuguese poets of the nineteenth century. Although he retired to Villa do Conde in 1882, he never found peace of mind: nine years later he shot himself in a public square of Ponta Delgada.*** Innocêncio XX, 160; on the author, see also VIII, 70-1. Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 398-401. Fátima Freitas Morna in Biblos, IV, 528-41. Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 247-50. Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (16th ed.) pp. 853-76. Bell, Portuguese Literature pp. 328-9. Porbase locates ten copies: five in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, four in the Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and one at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. CCPBE locates a single copy, at the Museo Provincial de Pontevedra. Not located in Rebiun. Jisc repeats British Library and adds University of Leeds.