Historia de Diofanes, Clymenea, e Hemirena, Principes de Thebas
Subtitle: Historia moral
By: escrita por huma senhora portugueza
Contributors: Gusmão, Alexandre de, 1695-1753; Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715
Publisher: Na Typografia Rollandiana. 1818. Com licença da meza do desembargo do paço. Vende-se em casa editor F. B. O. de M.. Mechas, ne largo Caes de Sodré, n. 3. A.
Published: 1818
Place of publication: Lisboa
Language: por
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Catalogs, Booksellers'; Brazilian literature
Work titles: Máximas de virtude e formosura
Notes: Attributed to Teresa Margarida da Silva e Orta by Moraes.

Also attributed to Alexandre de Gusmão.

Popularization based on the first chapter of the Lisbon, 1752 edition of "Máximas de virtude e formosura"

Beginning with the second edition in Lisbon, 1777, the title was changed to "Aventuras de Diofanes, ou, Maximas de virtude, e formosura com que Diofanes, Clymenea, e Hermirena, principes de Thebas, vencêrão os mais apertados lances da desgraça"

A political and philosophical allegory inspired by François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon's "Les aventures de Télemaque, fils d'Ulysse", first printed in 1699, and was intended to instruct a ruler how to govern in order to achieve a perfect society.

Signatures: A-F⁸ (A1 verso blank) G⁶ (G2, G6 versos blank)

Bookseller's advertisments on p. [2-8], 2nd count.

Engraved printer's ornament on title page.

Silva, Innocencio da. Diccionario bib. portuguez, VII: p. 317.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bibliographia brasiliana (1983 edition), II: p. 636-637.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bibliografia brasileira do período colonial, p. 265.