ANTÓNIO ARDIZZONE SPINOLA - 1609-1697, Cordel triplicado de amor a Christo Jesu sacramentado,

ANTÓNIO ARDIZZONE SPINOLA - 1609-1697, Cordel triplicado de amor a Christo Jesu sacramentado, SPINOLA, Pe. António Ardizzone.- CORDEL | TRIPLICADO DE AMOR | A CHRISTO JESU SACRAMENTADO, | Ao Encuberto de Portugal nacido, A seu Reyno restaurado, | LANÇADO EM TRES LIVROS DE SERMOENS, | DA FELIS ACLAMAÇAM D'EL REY DOM IOAM IV...- Lisboa: Na Impressaõ de Antonio Craesbeeck de Mello, 1680.- [84], 735, [109] p.: [8 (aliás 7)] gravuras.; 20 cm.- E. The author (1609-1697), a teatino religious from Naples remained long years in Portugal, with a stay in India between 1639 and 1648. The work is divided into three parts, each with its own title page but with continuous paging the first dedicated to the acclamation of King D. João IV, entitled «Portugal restituido na decima sexta geraçam de seus reys naturaes...» (p. 1 a 224); the second, which includes four sermons preached in Goa, «A Sagrada Comunham Restaurada na India...» (p. 225 a 579) and the tird one dedicated to «Annos desejados, e nacimentos felices da Magestade d'El-Rey de Portugal Dom Ioam IV» (p. 581 a 735). The Edition is illustrated with eight Burin engravings: two portraits of D. Pedro, Prince Regent, very similar (but the first one by Thomas Dudley and the second one by Clemente Bilingue, missing in this copy), a portrait of King D. João IV, a family tree of Jesus Christ and two of the Royal generation and consanguinity of Christ with King D. João IV, a portrait of the author during the Acclamation faced an assistance of Gentiles in India (Ernesto Soares, 3246) and a portrait of King D. João IV, still young. Ernesto Soares, on his História da gravura artística», refers to all these engravings (759) by assigning them to the English Thomas Dudley (TDF signatures), except the third family tree that is signed CB (Clement Bilingue). The eition was ordered to be suppressed and forbidden its reading by edict of the Real Mesa Censória in 1775, hence the rarity of the copies. This is a trimmed copy with some bookworm marginal cuts, but generally clean. Recent mottled calf binding. The work, bearing the theme of the first and third parts may be included in the bibliography of the Restoration period, but not referred to in the catalogue of the Viscount of Trindade. Samodães, 191 (refers to the engraving of D. Pedro). Inocêncio, I, p. 90. Arouca, S 558.