D. FRANCISCO MANUEL DE MELO - 1608-1666 El Fenis de Africa MELO, D. Francisco Manuel de.- EL FENIS | DE | AFRICA. | AGVSTINO | AVRELIO, | OBISPO HYPPONENSE. | Hallado | Entre las immortales ceniças | de su memoria. | POR D. FRANCISCO | MANVEL. | Diuidido en dos partes. | A IVAN NVÑES DA CVÑA.- En Lisboa: Por Pablo Craesbeeck, Año 1648.- [12], 220 f.; 14 cm.- E. D. Francisco Manuel de Melo (1608-1666), writer, military poet, playwriter, politician and moralist, born in Lisbon, where he studied at the Jesuit College of Santo Antão, was the maximum exponent of the Peninsular Baroque literature, publishing most of his books in Castilian. First edition of one of the author's lesser-known works, a biography of St. Augustine, which some claim was suggested by King D. João IV of Portugal himself and which was written in captivity (1644-1655). Slightly handled copy with slight foxing. Full parchment binding of the time, a little tired. Inocêncio, II, 440. Palha, 2621. Avila Perez, 4827. Arouca, M 214.