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Vida Acciones - VASCONCELOS (Agostinho Manuel de) VIDA y Acciones del Rey Don Juan el Segundo, Decimotercio de Portugal . En Madrid: en la Imprenta de Maria de Quiñones, 1639. ¶4, ¶¶3, A-K8, L-Z4, Aa-Ll4; [14], 348 [aliás 350] pp.; 190 mm. FIRST EDITION. A rare work by Agostinho Manuel de Vasconcelos, a nobleman born in Évora in 1584, who, after being ”a great venerator of the House of Braganza, whose rights to the throne of Portugal he upheld verbally and in writing, died beheaded in the Rossio square in Lisbon on August 29, 1641 [...], convinced of being a conspirator against the person and government of King John IV.” All of his works were written in Spanish, but in Inocêncio's opinion, ”they deserve such esteem that they could not be expunged from this Dictionary without flagrant injustice, ” referring to the criterion of not including works in foreign languages in his work. It is also worth mentioning, as a bibliographical curiosity, that the work has pages 159-160 repeated, differing slightly in the text. In this regard, José dos Santos, the only one to mention this incident, transcribes a note from the Count of Azevedo in the copy from his collection, which we also include here: ”This book has the perhaps singularity that pages 159 and 160 are repeated, although their contents are somewhat different; it should be noted that the repeated page makes sense with page 161, which follows it, while the first page with the same numbering does not.” It should be noted that the first version of the page in question corresponds to folio K8 and that the repetition already belongs to notebook L, and that from that notebook onwards the printing is in 4.º format [four sheets per notebook] and up to that point 8.º, with a decrease in paper quality also being visible. ! Please note that this translated text was generated by Google. !