Author: [PIZARRO PIMENTEL DE ALMEIDA CARVALHAIS, Rodrigo Pinto (attributed)].
Title: Carta de um portuguez emigrado á cerca do ex-Imperador do Brazil, e do seu chamado manifesto.Lisbon, Na Typographia de José Baptista Morando, 1832. 4to (ca. 21 x 14.5 cm). With the woodcut printer’s device on the title-page. Modern half burgundy artificial leather.
Description: 11, [1 blank] pp.Extremely rare publication written in the form of a letter by an anonymous author, who may have been the Portuguese military officer and politician Rodrigo Pinto Pizarro Pimentel de Almeida Carvalhais (1788-1841). The attribution is based on Borba de Moraes' note concerning this title, mentioning that he consulted the copy in the National Library of Brazil which contains the following manuscript inscription on the last page: "He Pizarro o autor desta Carta, o qual sendo nomeado p. Ministro d'estado do Ex-Imperador, este passado tempos o depoz; e lhe prohibido por hum decreto a sua entrada em Portugal".This letter - dated Paris, 20 February 1832, addressed to “Meu bom Amigo” (My good friend) and signed “Seu Amigo” (Your friend) - critiques a manifesto by the first Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro I (1798-1834), drafted on 2 February 1832. The author begins by acknowledging the receipt of the manifesto, in which Dom Pedro I attempts to reassert his political influence and authority after his abdication in April 1831 in favour of his then 5-year-old son Dom Pedro II. The manifesto appears to be an effort by Dom Pedro I to reclaim power, despite having previously renounced it, by declaring himself regent of his son and seeking to be proclaimed as king. The author criticises Dom Pedro I's hypocrisy and contradictions; his attempt to return to power is seen by the author as a betrayal of the emperor's previous decisions. The author is particularly outraged by how Dom Pedro I, after promising to uphold the Charter, undermines it by claiming regency, thus betraying the very principles he swore to protect.With a small inscription in brown ink ("36") on the title page. Further with worm holes in the blank head margin of all leaves and in the centre of pages 7-11, slightly affecting the text, the wormholes in the title-page repaired with translucent tape on recto and verso, some slight foxing and browning throughout.l Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil (1 copy; cat. record via https://acervo.bn.gov.br/sophia_web/acervo/detalhe/1196706); Borba de Moraes I, p. 159; Porbase 730993 (2 copies); cf. WorldCat 9810624008 (1 digitised copy via Europeana from the Portuguese Arquivo Histórico Parlamentar); WorldCat 310425388 and 771650874 (2 copies, slightly different spelling of title); for the author: Innocencio VII, pp. 179-181 and XVIII, pp. 288-289.

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