Parnaso Lusitano; ou, Poesias selectas dos auctores portuguezes antigos e modernos, illustradas com notas. Precedido de uma historia abreviada da lingua e poesia portugueza. In six volumes.

Portugal parn Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, João Baptista da, 1799-1854. Parnaso Lusitano; ou, Poesias selectas dos auctores portuguezes antigos e modernos, illustradas com notas. Precedido de uma historia abreviada da lingua e poesia portugueza. In six volumes. Paris: J. P. Aillaud, 1826-1834, cxxxix, 284p; 460p, index; 467p, index; 467p, index; 458p, errata; 313p. Small palm-sized books, 3" x 4", looks like pebbled green paper on spines with paper labels, marbled paper over boards. The paper is losing some of the marbling from rubbing against the other volumes. Volume VI has some chipping to spine. Very good condition given the age and nature of the books. The six volumes: $145.00 Box 70, I, 2

Contents: I. Epicos. II. Descriptivos, didacticos,philosophicos. Heroicomicos. Bucolicos. III. Epigrammaticos. Satricos, Lyricos. IV. Lyricos. Fabulistas. Elegiacos. Epistolares. V. Epistolares. Pastoraes. Dramaticos.VI. Satyricos: O Hyssope. O reino da estupidez. Satyras de Nicolao Tolentino de Almeida.

Compiled originally by J.B. de Almeida Garrett, author of the preliminary sketch on the language and poetry, and revised by Jose da Fonseca. Cf. Silva's Dic. bibl. port./ Vol. 6 was first published 1834 under title, "Satyricos portuguezes", and included "Os burros; ou, O reinado da sandice". It was followed in the same year by a volume bearing the original title and containing the "Satyras" of N. Tolentino in place of "Os burros." cf. Silva.