GÓIS, Damião de.- DAMIANI | A GOES, EQVITIS LV- | SITANI ALIQVOT OPVSCVLA. | ¥ Fides Religio ...

GÓIS, Damião de.- DAMIANI | A GOES, EQVITIS LV- | SITANI ALIQVOT OPVSCVLA. | ¥ Fides Religio, mortesq Aethiopum. | ¥ Epistolæ aliquot Preciosi Ioannis, Pau | lo Iouio & ipso Samiano interpretibus. | ¥ Deploratio Lappianæ gentis. | ¥ Lappiæ descriptio. | ¥ Bellum Cambaicum. | ¥ De rebus & imperio Lusitanorum ad | Paulum Iouium disceptiuncula. | ¥ Hispanæ ubertas & potentia. | ¥ Pro Hispania aduersus Munsterum de- | fensio. | Omnia ab ipso autore recognita. | ¥ Item aliquot Epistolæ Sadoleti, Bembi, | & aliorum clarissimorum uirorum, cum | Farragine carminu ad ipsum Damianu.- Lovanii: ¶Ex Officina Rutgeri Recij, Anno 1544.- [153] f.; 19 cm.- E.
Damião de Góis (1502-1574), historian, diplomat and humanist, born in Alenquer, prominent figure of the Portuguese Renaissance, between 1523 and 1533, was secretary of the Portuguese Factory in Antwerp; from that date onwards, he devoted himself to his historical and literary works, living and corresponding with various humanists, including Erasmus of Rotterdam and Pietro Bembo; in 1548 he assumed the position of main guard of Torre do Tombo; he was persecuted by the Holy Office and was arrested for heresy in 1571. An important collection of texts published in Louvain shortly after the siege of this city, in which the author was involved, having been taken prisoner by the French army. The edition, without pagination, includes some of the texts that would lead the humanist to be arrested by the Inquisition in 1571. Ownership manuscript on the title page: “Letellier conseiller au grand conseil du roy”. This is most likely Michel Le Tellier (1603-1685) who was successively adviser to the Grand Conseil, procurator of the king in Châtelet (Paris), maître de requettes, intendant in Piedmont, secretary of state for war and chancellor-general of Louis XIV (1677). Complete copy (possibly missing the last blank page), with some old handwritten annotations (by Le Tellier?), but in general clean and with good margins. Entire sheepskin contemporary binding, a little worn, with new ties and missing the fly guards. Brunet, II, 1642 (ce recueil est assez recherché). Graesse, III, 102. Sabin, 27690. Leite de Faria, 10.