Glauceste Saturnio and the Real Mesa Censória: a genetic criticism of the Obras from Cláudio Manuel da Costa

This paper intends to do the analysis of the original manuscript of the Obras from Cláudio Manuel da Costa published at 1768, which was examined by the Real Mesa Censória, having huge cuts and corrections. The paper intends to discuss the changes proceeded by the poet or by the Mesa Censória, created under Pombal to control and censure forthcoming books or at circulating in the Reign, functions by himself that was previously shared by the Desembargo do Paço, the Santo Ofício, and the Ordinário.

Cláudio Manuel da Costa; Real Mesa Censória ; eighteenth century