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🦋 The Book of Exhortations

I was wondering a while ago, where I could find source material for O livro dos conselhos, the mediæval text from which José Saramago took several of his epigraphs. Turns out I was looking for the wrong title -- the primary title of the book is O leal conselheiro and several editions of it are available through Amazon in case you read (mediæval) Portuguese. Not finding any Spanish translation which I would have expected to be available... The text does not seem to be available online AOTW; but there is a Leal Conselheiro Project being pursued in collaboration between João Dionísio of Universidade de Lisboa and Paloma Celis-Carbajal of Madison, which aims to have a digitization of the sole extant manuscript copy of O leal conselheiro online by the end of next year.

Update: Hmm, seems I spoke too soon. Márcio Ricardo Coelho Muniz of the UEFS has a paper online on "The Faithful Advisor and the Book of Exhortations" which makes clear that the Livro dos conselhos is a separate, lesser-known work of Edward's.

posted afternoon of Monday, October 31st, 2011
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Jeremy, I assume you have seen this article. Just in case you have not, it answers, on page 3, your question about the source of Livro dos Conselhos cited by Saramago.

"A invenção do real em Saramago
Raquel Wandelli
Mestranda em Literatura Brasileira — UFSC"

Um abraço e Feliz Ano Novo!

Paulo

posted afternoon of December 30th, 2012 by Paulo Sotero

Thanks very much Paulo, I had not seen that article.

posted evening of December 30th, 2012 by Jeremy

"A citação dessa epígrafe inventada, retirada de um livro fictício, inicia a brincadeira de Saramago com a verdade histórica dos grandes livros. Sabe-se, até por várias declarações do autor, que o tal livro dos Conselhos citado em suas obras não existe. Em História do Cerco de Lisboa, ele constrói uma trama que mostra como a verdade é sempre fruto de uma subjetivação, o que não nos desobriga a lutar por ela." Happy new year!

posted morning of December 31st, 2012 by Jeremy

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