Versos que no día 15 de Septembro de 1813, quinto anniversario da felicissima restauração destes reinos, additou á sua illuminação na Praça do Rocio, e distribuio na fórma que o tem practicado em todos os dias solemnes desde esta memoravel época.

Lisbon, Na Impressão Regia, 1813.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, contemporary marbled wrappers (some wear). Woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title page. Light browning, but overall in very good condition. 11 pp. *** FIRST EDITION of this Pindaric ode, ode, and sonnet by "José Pedro das Luminarias." Silva (Paço d'Arcos 1772-Lisbon 1862) owned the Nicola Bar on the Praça do Rossio, a gathering-place for many literary and political figures, including Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage and Thomás Antonio dos Santos e Silva. José Pedro was a sort of living periodical, capable of reciting the poetry of Bocage and the satires of José Agostinho de Macedo. He became famous in his own right in 1808, when the French retreated from Lisbon and he placed a variety of brilliant illuminations in his windows, including images by the painter Henrique José da Silva of the Prince Regent, George III of Great Britain, Wellington, and others. The show was estimated to have cost 600$000 réis. From then on, no holiday went without its illumination, and Silva was called "José Pedro das Luminarias."According to the title page, this pamphlet was handed out on the occasion of such a set of illuminations in the Rossio. The title-page verso refers to a painting representing the Triple Alliance and a portrait of the Prince Regent, both by Henrique José da Silva, and gives three inscriptions that are part of the illumination.Innocêncio lists numerous poems by the author published in pamphlet form, and a Collecção dos versos published in 1812, a year before the poems published here.*** Ayres de Magalhães Sepúlveda, Dicionário bibliográfico da Guerra Peninsular, III, 290. Innocêncio V, 91; on the author, see also V, 454; XIII, 156-60, 373. Biblioteca Pública de Braga, Catálogo do Fundo Barca-Oliveira, p. 219. Porbase locates two copies, one in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, the other at the Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Not located in Jisc.