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Manuel de Faria e Sousa

Manuel de Faria e Sousa (Portuguese pronunciation: [mɐnuˈɛl dɨ fɐˈɾiɐ i ˈsozɐ]; Spanish: Faria y Sousa; 18 March 1590 – 3 June 1649) was a Portuguese historian and poet who frequently wrote in Spanish.[1]

Portrait of Manuel de Faria e Sousa in Ásia portuguesa

He was born into a Portuguese noble family and studied in Braga for some years before entering into the service of the Bishop of Porto. Except for about four years, from 1631 to 1634, during which he was a member of the Portuguese embassy in Rome, the greater part of his later life was spent in Madrid, where he died in June 1649.

He was married to Catarina Machado, the "Albania" of his poems. His first big work, an Epitome de las historias Portuguezas (Madrid, 1628), was favorably received; but some passages in his commentary on the Portuguese epic Os Lusíadas and the poem of Luís de Camões,[2] gained the suspicion of the inquisitors, caused his temporary incarceration, and led to the permanent loss of his official salary. despite his productivity which made him write 12 folio pages a day, death overtook him before he had completed his ongoing project, a history of the Portuguese in all parts of the world.

Several portions of the work appeared at Lisbon after his death, under the editorship of Captain Faria e Sousa : Europa Portugueza (1667, 3 vols.); Ásia Portugueza (1666–1675, 3 vols.); África Portugueza (1681). As a poet, Faria e Sousa was nearly as prolific; but his poems are vitiated by the prevailing Gongorism of his time. They were for the most part collected in the Noches claras (Madrid, 1624–1626), and the Fuente de Aganipe, of which four volumes were published in Madrid in 1644–1646. He also wrote, from information supplied by P. A. Semmedo, Imperio de China i cultura evangelica en l (Madrid, 1642), and translated and completed the Nobiliário of the Count of Barcelos.

There are English translations by J. Stevens of the History of Portugal (London, 1698), and of Portuguese Asia (London, 1695).

Works

Frontispice of Europa Portuguesa, 1678
  1. 600 sonetos
  2. 12 "poemas em outava rythma, silvas e sexinas[1]"
  3. Canções, odes, 200 madrigals ("madrigales"), sextinas e tercetos
  4. 20 eclogas
  5. Redondilhas, glosas, cantilenas, decimas, romances e epigramas
  6. "Musa nueva" com sonetos, oitavas, tercetos, canções, etc. reduzidos a versos octosilabos
  7. "Engenho" de acrostichos, esdrúxulos, ecos, etc.

Say Faria, That begins this work in 1614, using 25 years, examining more than thousand authors, and between this ones 300 Italians.?

  1. Lisboa, Henrique Valente de Oliveira, 1666: History of Índia, since it discovery until 1538.
  2. Lisboa, Antonio Craesbeeck de Mello, 1674: History of Índia, from 1538 to 1581.
  3. Lisboa, ibidem, 1675: History of Índia, during the Spanish dominion (1581 - 1640).
  1. Lisboa, Antonio Craesbeeck de Mello, 1678: From universal diluvio to Portugal with king.
  2. Lisboa, Ibid, 1679: From Government of Count D. Henrique to D. João III.
  3. Lisboa, Ibid, 1680: From king D. Sebastião to Filipe III of Portugal.

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Epitome of an Era:", Being Portuguese in Spanish, Purdue University Press, pp. 79–138, 2020-04-15, ISBN 978-1-55753-885-7, retrieved 2024-02-18
  2. ^ "The Lusiads". World Digital Library. 1800–1882. Retrieved 2013-08-30.

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