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COSTA (Francisco da). CANCIONEIRO Chamado de D. Maria Henriques. Lisboa. 1956. - COSTA (Francisco da) CANCIONEIRO Chamado de D. Maria Henriques . introdução e notas de Domingos Maurício Gomes dos Santos. Lisboa: Agência Geral do Ultramar, 1956. CLX, 676 pp.: il.; 260 mm. First edition. D. Francisco da Costa (Évora, c. 1536 - Morocco, 1591), a Portuguese nobleman and diplomat, was sent in 1579 to the Sultanate of Morocco as an ambassador tasked with negotiating the ransom of Portuguese captives taken at the Battle of Alcácer Quibir (1578). Having offered himself as a personal guarantee for eighty noblemen who returned to Portugal, he was detained at the court of the sheriff when they never sent the agreed ransom. He remained thus at the Moroccan court for more than a decade, until his death in Morocco in 1591, without ever having managed to return to his homeland. It was during this prolonged and involuntary captivity that D. Francisco da Costa composed the verses that constitute this songbook – materially written by his secretary Luís Fernandes Duarte – and which also became known as the Songbook of D. Francisco da Costa . The manuscript, preserved in the Costa family archive, was discovered and published by Father Domingos Maurício Gomes dos Santos, SJ, who wrote the extensive historical-literary introduction and the critical notes that open the volume. The transcription of the manuscript text occupies the work up to page 490. The edition is illustrated with polychrome reproductions of the Costa family coats of arms, photographs of the burial sites of his relatives in Évora and Morocco, fold-out maps, and facsimiles of manuscript pages. (Estimated.) ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate