Poetry
Obras
Not translated into English
Cláudio Manuel da Costa · 1768
Synopsis
The collection brings together sonnets, eclogues, epistles, a fable and epicedia, written partly in Coimbra, partly after the poet's return to Minas Gerais. Shepherds, nymphs and thwarted loves follow the conventions of Arcadia, under the signature of Glauceste Satúrnio, and the poet often regrets there that he cannot bring home the delights of the Tagus, the Lima and the Mondego. One fable is devoted to the Ribeirão do Carmo, the river of his native town.
Context
The book was printed in Coimbra in 1768 under the title Obras, its author styling himself there “arcade ultramarino, chamado Glauceste Saturnio”. In September of the same year, he founded an Arcadian colony in Vila Rica. Studies see in it the first manifestation of Arcadianism in Brazil; the journal Convergência Lusíada nonetheless notes how timid the praise of the native land remains in it. A new edition appeared in Rio in 1903 with a study by João Ribeiro, then an edition conforming to the 1768 text in 1959.
Who it is for
An eighteenth-century collection, in Portuguese, with no French translation; the sonnets can be read separately.
Prizes and reception
Regarded as the starting point of the Brazilian Arcadian movement, at the time when its author gathered the poets of Vila Rica.
Sources for this page 6
The pages consulted to check this page.