Bibliographic Details
| Author / Creator: | Carvalho, João Jorge de, author.
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| Imprint: | Lisboa : Na officina patr. de Francisco Luiz Ameno, M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]
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| Description: | [4], xi, [1], 126, [2] pages, [3] leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations ; 16 cm (8vo)
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| Language: | Portuguese |
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| Format: | Print
Book
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| Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's copy is 1 of 2 titles bound together; bound with: [2] Figueiredo, Francisco de Paula de. Santarenaida. Coimbra : Na regia officina typografica, 1792.
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| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12774222 |
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Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Gaticanea
Cruelissima guerra entre os cães, e os gatos
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| Other uniform titles: | Camões, Luís de, 1524?-1580. Lusíadas.
Ameno, Francisco Luiz, 1713-1793,
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| Provenance: | Signature: Augusto Cândido da Costa Lima.
Binding: mottled calf over boards; gold tooling and red lettering piece on spine with gilt title: Gatican.
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| Notes: | Signatures: pi⁸, A-H⁸.
"Cum liçença da Real Meza Censoria."
Wood engraved head- and tail-pieces.
Engraved frontispiece and folding plates.
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| Summary: | Verse description of mock epic battle in Portuguese town of Mafra between cats and dogs (women and men) and a parody of Renaissance epic poems, in particular the Portuguese Lusiads (Os Lusíadas) of Luís de Camões, as well as the earlier Batrachomyomachia attributed to Homer.
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