Auction AT05 ANNO TERTIVS /02 - Camillo Castello Branco
By ANNO Leilões
Mar 16, 2025
Alameda de São Dâmaso, 73, Sala 5 4810-286 Guimarães, Portugal

Camillo Castello Branco (Mártires, Lisbon, 16 March 1825 - São Miguel de Seide, Famalicão, 1 June 1890) was one of the greatest writers in the history of Portuguese-language literature. He was also one of the first writers to make a living exclusively from his writing in Portugal.

A controversial character, he was nevertheless admired by all the great figures of his time, and his exceptional work managed to rise him to the category of cult author. In fact, it's impossible to understand the Portuguese 19th century without considering his profound influence on the culture of the century of the locomotive, of newspapers and of a progress longed for by a people coming out of impossible wars and trying to rebuild their identity.

It is with genuine veneration for the master that we at ANNO celebrate the 200th ANNIVERSARY of Camillo, an author who touched on everything that matters in human life, from love to the deepest suffering; but who, above all, taught us how to write like no one else.


Happy birthday and thank you, golden writer.

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Castello Branco, Camillo – AMOR DE PERDIÇÃO (MEMORIAS D’UMA FAMILIA). Porto. Casa de N. Moré. 1862. XI-(1) 249 (1) ...

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Castello Branco, Camillo – AMOR DE PERDIÇÃO (MEMORIAS D’UMA FAMILIA). Porto. Casa de N. Moré. 1862. XI-(1) 249 (1) pp. 18,7 cm x 12,1 cm. E.
1.ª edição desta obra-prima da literatura em língua portuguesa de todos os tempos, marco incontornável do romantismo português, que o áureo escritor escreveu em apenas quinze dias, enquanto se encontrava encerrado numa pequena cela da Cadeia da Relação do Porto.
Um dado que costuma ser pouco realçado é o facto de que Camillo dedicou o livro a Antonio Maria Fontes Pereira de Mello (1819 — 1887), que acabaria por se tornar numa figura histórica de alta relevância no Portugal dos finais de oitocentos.

Bom estado geral de conservação. Encadernação coeva com lombada em pele e ferros dourados; manuseada e com pequenos defeitos. Anagrama de posse no pé da lombada e assinatura de posse correspondente na folha de anterrosto. Vinheta da Livraria de Campos (Lisboa) no verso da pasta anterior. Sem capas de brochura. Interior limpo, com muito ocasionais e muito ténues picos de acidez.

Extremamente raro. Bom exemplar.

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