BERNARDES, Diogo.- O LYMA, | DE DIOGO BER- | NARDEZ: | EM O QVAL SE CONTEM AS | Suas Eglogas, & Cartas. | Derigido por elle ao Excellente Prin- | cipe, & Serenissimo Senhor | Dom Aluaro D'allem- | Castro, | Duque D'aueyro. &c.- Foy Impresso em Lisboa: em casa de Simão Lopez Mecador de Liuros, 1596.- [4], 173 [i. é 163] p.; 19 cm.- E. First edition of one of the classic works of Portuguese poetry from the 16th century, according to many the one where Renaissance bucolicism acquires purest and clearest expression. Diogo Bernardes (ca. 1530-ca. 1594), a native of Ponte da Barca, accompanied King D. Sebastião on the tragic journey to Africa, having been captive and rescued only in 1581. He had a friendly relationship with Sá de Miranda and António Ferreira and his models are those of the Renaissance: Petrarch, Garcilaso, Tasso and the Latin classics. Wrong foliation from sheet 101 (wrongly numbered 111). Slightly trimmed volume (carmine edges), but clean. Ex-libris of Aucíndio Rodrigues da Silva. Twentieth century full sheepskin binding with light patine and blind tooling on the covers and spine. Inocêncio, II, p. 148. Samodães, 372. Anselmo, 818. National Library (16th century), 82 (three incomplete or mistreated copies). Library of King D. Manuel II, 57.