Quadro politico, historico e biographico do Parlamento de 1842 por um Eremita da Serra d'Arga.

Lisbon, Typographia de Manoel de J. Coelho, 1845.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, traces of early blue wrappers (spine splitting). Uncut. Creased, soiled, and dog-eared, but in good condition. 136 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this description of the Portuguese Cortes of 1842, published anonymously by one of the elected deputies. Part I (pp. 9-27) is a "Vida intima" of the Côrtes. Part II (pp. 29-111) gives biographical sketches of several dozen members, including the Duque de Terceira, Silva Cabral, Costa Cabral, Almeida Garrett, and Mousinho d'Albuquerque. Part III (pp. 113-127) is polemical: "Necessidade de mudar de ministros."João de Azevedo Sá Coutinho (Vianna do Minho1811-Lisbon, 1854) was a Miguelista who retreated to Braga when the constitutionalists came to power in 1834, and stayed there until he took part in the reaction against the September revolution in 1837. In 1842 he served in the Cortes, where he sided with the opposition. Later he fought on behalf of the Junta do Porto. Innocêncio comments: "Dotado de innegavel talento, carecia ás vezes da prudencia necessaria para regular as suas acções."*** Innocêncio III, 297-8; on the author, see also VI, 265 and X, 169. Guerra Andrade, Pseudónimos p. 88. Porbase locates seven copies in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, three at Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Jisc repeats the copy at British Library. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by Porbase.