Reposta segunda ao Filosofo solitario
Subtitle: por hum amigo dos homens: na qual se mostra que toda a sus obra naõ he mais que huma simplez traducçaõ; e se apontaõ os defeitos della, com hum dialogo no fim do mesmo Solitario com a alma do caturra D. Felix
Publisher: Na officina de Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo, impressor da real meza censoria.
Published: 1787
Place of publication: Lisboa
Language: por
Number of pages: 45
Subjects: Medicine; Solitude; Philosophy
Notes: Attributed to Francisco de Mello Franco by Moraes and Innocêncio.

A reply to O Filosofo solitario, in part a translation of Jean de Sales' Philosophie de la nature (printed in Paris, 1770), which first appeared in Lisbon, 1786-1787.

Mello Franco attacks Sales' assertions that solitude is better than society and that medicine is futile.

"Soneto": p. [2], 2nd count.

Signatures: A-F (A1, F3, F4 versos blank)

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head piece; initial.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.) I: p. 320.

Silva, I.F. da. Bib. portuguez, II: p. 306.

Silva, I.F. da. Bib. portuguez, III; p. 11.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund.