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DIARIO DE FILADELFIA, 1798-1799

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ABSTRACT
The Diario de Filadelfia by Hipólito da Costa is a refined, incisive, and enlightening account of the nascent United States at the turn of the 18th-19th century, an unequivocal premonition of its imminent role as a world power. But in addition, its young author, sent by the Portuguese government to the then American capital on a secret mission, surprises with his exquisite and dynamic prose, for his irony and his erudition, in a text that for him was nothing more than an intimate document that nobody should ever get to know. However, his later discovery came to reveal the harrowing circumstances of his trip and his daily life for more than a year in the United States, but above all the open contradiction with the official letters that he was sending to Lisbon, finally disclosing what was the “genius” truth about the alleged compliance of his assignment… This edition of the Diario de Filadelfia, the first translation from the original Portuguese into the Spanish language, includes abundant color illustrations and is limited to 300 copies.

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  • Libro: Diario de Filadelfia, 1798-1799
  • Author: Hipólito José da Costa Pereira Furtado de Mendonça (1774-1823)
  • Original title: Diário da minha viagem para Filadélfia
  • Editorial: Planisferio Ediciones S. L.
  • ISBN: 978-84-949619-1-5
  • Legal deposit: VG 745-2018
  • Publication date: March, 2024
  • Publication place: Vigo, Spain
  • IBIC code: BJ : History – Journals and Letters
  • Thema code: NH : History
  • Original language: Portuguese
  • Publication language: Spanish
  • Printing: offset
  • Presentation: shrink wrapped
  • Cover: sewn matt hardcover
  • Front: black cardboard
  • Paper: matt coated 150 grams
  • Size: 31,5 x 22,5 cm.
  • Pages: 248
  • Print run: 300

Description

DESCRIPTION

  • Libro: Diario de Filadelfia, 1798-1799
  • Author: Hipólito José da Costa Pereira Furtado de Mendonça (1774-1823)
  • Original title: Diário da minha viagem para Filadélfia
  • Editorial: Planisferio Ediciones S. L.
  • ISBN: 978-84-949619-1-5
  • Legal deposit: VG 745-2018
  • Publication date: March, 2024
  • Publication place: Vigo, Spain
  • IBIC code: BJ : History – Journals and Letters
  • Thema code: NH : History
  • Original language: Portuguese
  • Publication language: Spanish
  • Printing: offset
  • Presentation: shrink wrapped
  • Cover: sewn matt hardcover
  • Front: black cardboard
  • Paper: matt coated 150 grams
  • Size: 31,5 x 22,5 cm.
  • Pages: 248
  • Print run: 300

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DIARIO DE FILADELFIA 

Australia

Sidney, State Library New South Wales

Brazil

Rio de Janeiro, Biblioteca Nacional

São Paulo, Biblioteca de São Paulo

Portugal

Évora, Biblioteca Pública de Évora

Lisboa, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal

Spain

Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España

Santiago, Biblioteca de Galicia

Vigo, Biblioteca Municipal de Vigo Juan Campañel

United States

Boston, Massachusetts Historical Society

Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts

New York,  New York Public Library

New York, The Hispanic Society Museum & Library

Philadelphia, Germantown Historical Society

Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library

Washington DC, Library of Congress

Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution

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