"Em dezembro de 1828."

João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, Visconde de Almeida Garrett was a Portuguese was a poet, orator, playwright, novelist, journalist, politician, and a peer of the realm. He contributed two patriotic verses, the Hymno constitucional and the Hymno patriótico, which his friends copied and distributed in the streets of Porto. After the reactionary coup led by the Infante dom Miguel in 1823, he was forced to seek exile in England. In 1826, he returned to Portugal, where he founded the newspapers O Portuguez and O chronista. In 1828, under the rule of King Miguel of Portugal, he was again forced into exile in England. When a constitutional monarchy was established, he briefly served as its Consul General to Brussels and was acclaimed as one of the major orators of Liberalism. He was nobled by Maria II of Portugal in 1852 with the title of 1st Viscount of Almeida Garrett.

Signatures: A-C⁴ (A1 verso blank) D² (D2 verso blank).

Engraved royal arms of Portugal on title page.

Silva, I.F. da. Diccionário bibliográphico portuguez, II: page 254

Silva, I.F. da. Diccionário bibliográphico portuguez, IX: page 204

Purchase; 2018; 18-452b.