The updated edition of Francisco Saraiva de Sousa's “Báculo Pastoral de Flores de Exemplos”

Abstract

In this study, we will present the 17th century work Báculo Pastoral de Flores de Exemplos, by Francisco Saraiva de Sousa, first published in 1624 by Pedro Craesbeeck. The work, whose last edition is from 1738, as it is rare to find and has great interest from a religious, linguistic and literary point of view, is currently the subject of an updated edition, to be released soon. In the present study, we will provide some bibliographical information about the various editions of the work and its author, we will talk about the content (structure, theme, authors cited, etc.), we will mention some graphic and linguistic particularities and we will present the criteria we established for the elaboration of the updated edition. Attached, we will include, as an example, the transcription of Chapter XXVIII of the work, relating to the sin of gluttony.