About this book
Trovas Inéditas de Bandarra by Gonçalo Anes Bandarra invites listeners into a haunting corpus of prophetic verse that helped shape Portuguese literary and religious imagination. These trovas—short, lyrical prophecies and moral sayings—survive in scattered manuscripts and rare editions (notably Nantes, 1644, and Barcelona, 1809) and were once held by contemporaries and collectors such as Pacheco, Cardinal Nuno da Cunha, and the Inquisition commissioner Domingos Furtado de Mendonça.
Blending devotional fervor, politicized hope, and plainspoken folk wisdom, Bandarra’s poems occupy a vital place among Portuguese classics and literature. The collection reproduces texts long considered lost or fragmentary, offering the listener a window into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cultural anxieties, millenarian expectation, and the textual journeys that carried these trovas through private libraries and public controversy. The language retains an archaic cadence while the themes—prophecy, providence, national destiny, and moral counsel—resonate with readers interested in early modern thought.
Ideal for lovers of classical literature, scholars of Iberian history and prophecy, and audiobook listeners who enjoy lyrical, historically rooted works, this edition brings Bandarra’s enigmatic voice back into the ear of a new generation.
