RACINE (Jean).Livre Rare Book
Iphigénia tragédia de Joao Racine. Traduzida em verso portuguez e offerecida como uma prova da mais sincera gratidão.
1816ABC_47639Rio de Janeiro: Impressão Règia 1816. Contemporary blue-grey wrappers. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page. 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. Impressão Règia, unknown
Antiquariaat FORUM BV · Pays-Bas1 950,00 €
