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without any ownership marks or foxing, but some dog-eared preliminaries. There are a<br />
number of elegant half-page woodcut designs throughout the text as well as chapter<br />
heading and final vignettes. The title is difficult to translate but seems to be close to the<br />
meaning: alleviations, or assuagements, of pain, specifically pain or suffering caused by<br />
the death of a loved one. The text consists of a long series of structured and stylized<br />
short ‘lenitive’ sentiments addressed to the Portuguese monarch, Pedro II, for his<br />
assuagement on the recent death of his queen, Maria Sofia Isabella. A major portion is<br />
devoted to an elaborate alphabetically-based listing of the various experiences of life and<br />
the need to celebrate the joyous portions as well as suffer the inevitable vicissitudes. The<br />
extensive marginal print notations throughout indicate that these sentiments, embodied in<br />
allusions and quotations, are drawn principally from biblical, but also from classical and<br />
contemporary European history and thought. We may well sense that this entire exercise<br />
functions as an elaborate conceit on the part of the author, a Carmelite friar, to<br />
demonstrate his own broad humanistic learning. This title is quite scarce with OCLC<br />
recording only two copies in the U.S. $1,450.00<br />
78. [Pound, Ezra] POETRY A MAGAZINE OF VERSE. Vol. II, No. 1, April 1913.<br />
Fine in illustrated wrappers, partially uncut. Contains Ezra Pound’s Contemporania, a<br />
group of 12 poems, most of which were later published in book form in Lustra. Included<br />
are three of Pound’s best-known lyrics, Dance Figure, A Pact, and In a Station of the<br />
Metro. Also containing The Grey Rock by William Butler Yeats, which was<br />
simultaneously published in The British Review in London. [Gallup C76] $100.00