Author: RACINE, Jean and Antonio José de Lima LEITÃO (translator).
Title: Iphigénia tragédia de João Racine. Traduzida em verso portuguez, e offerecida como uma prova da mais sincera gratidão.Rio de Janeiro, Impressão règia, 1816. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page. Contemporary blue-grey wrappers.
Description: [8], 53, [3 blank] pp.First and only translation of Jean Racine's (1639-1699) famous play in Portuguese, here in its first Brazilian edition. Iphigénie, as the play was called in French, was incredibly popular when it was first produced. Strongly based on the original play by the Greek tragedian Euripides (ca.480-406 BCE), it tells the story of Iphigenia, who has to be ritually sacrificed by her father Agamemnon to allow the Greeks to sail to Troy. All 5 acts of Racine's play are included in this translation. It is one of the earliest works published by Impressão Regia, the first publishing house of Brazil.Antonio José de Lima Leitao (1787-1856), the translator of this work, was born in Lagos (Algarve). He studied medicine and served as a physician with the French and Portuguese armies before moving to Brazil. In 1816, he was sent to Mozambique and later India, to work as a physician. He published numerous works on medicine and politics, as well as some poetry.The edges and spine of the wrapper show signs of wear, with small tears and discolouration around the edges and minor loss of material on the spine. With small ink stains on the bottom margin of page 4, the bottom outer corner of some leaves is slightly creased. Otherwise in good condition.l Camargo & Moraes I, 496; Innocêncio I, p. 71 and VIII, p. 204; Porbase 911189 (2 copies); Rodrigues 1413.
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Title: Iphigénia tragédia de João Racine. Traduzida em verso portuguez, e offerecida como uma prova da mais sincera gratidão.Rio de Janeiro, Impressão règia, 1816. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page. Contemporary blue-grey wrappers.
Description: [8], 53, [3 blank] pp.First and only translation of Jean Racine's (1639-1699) famous play in Portuguese, here in its first Brazilian edition. Iphigénie, as the play was called in French, was incredibly popular when it was first produced. Strongly based on the original play by the Greek tragedian Euripides (ca.480-406 BCE), it tells the story of Iphigenia, who has to be ritually sacrificed by her father Agamemnon to allow the Greeks to sail to Troy. All 5 acts of Racine's play are included in this translation. It is one of the earliest works published by Impressão Regia, the first publishing house of Brazil.Antonio José de Lima Leitao (1787-1856), the translator of this work, was born in Lagos (Algarve). He studied medicine and served as a physician with the French and Portuguese armies before moving to Brazil. In 1816, he was sent to Mozambique and later India, to work as a physician. He published numerous works on medicine and politics, as well as some poetry.The edges and spine of the wrapper show signs of wear, with small tears and discolouration around the edges and minor loss of material on the spine. With small ink stains on the bottom margin of page 4, the bottom outer corner of some leaves is slightly creased. Otherwise in good condition.l Camargo & Moraes I, 496; Innocêncio I, p. 71 and VIII, p. 204; Porbase 911189 (2 copies); Rodrigues 1413.
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- Book number: ABC_47639
- Book number: ABC_47639