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[37] The Portuguese case is well stated by Theophilo Braga in his
_Historia das novelas portuguezas de cavalleria_ (Porto, 1873), in his
_Questões de litteratura e arte portugueza_ (Lisboa, 1881), and in
his _Curso de historia de litteratura portugueza_ (Lisboa, 1885). It
is most forcibly summarized by Madame Michaëlis de Vasconcellos (_op.
cit._, pp. 216-226) who cites, as partisans of the Portuguese claim,
Warton, Bouterwek, Southey, Sismondi, Clemencín, Ticknor, Wolf, Lemcke,
and Puymaigre. To these names might be added those of the two eminent
masters, M. Gaston Paris and Sr. D. Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo.
[38] See _La Littérature française au moyen âge XI^e-XIV^e siècle par
Gaston Paris, Membre de l'Institut_. Deuxième édition revue, corrigée,
augmentée et accompagnée d'un tableau chronologique. (Paris, 1890).
Referring to the _romans bretons_, M. Gaston Paris writes (p. 104):
"Le Perceforest français au XIV^e siècle, _l'Amadís_ portugais puis
espagnol aux XV^e et XVI^e siècles sont des imitations de ces grands
romans en prose."
[39] Chiefly by Gayangos in the _Discurso preliminar_ to Rivadeneyra,
vol. xl.; by José Amador de los Ríos in his _Historia crítica de la
literatura española_ (1861-65), vol. v., pp. 78-97; by Eugène Baret
in _De l'Amadis de Gaule_ (second edition, Paris, 1871); by Ludwig
Braunfels in his _Kritischer Versuch über den Roman Amadis von
Gallien_ (Leipzig, 1876); and by Professor Gottfried Baist in the
above-mentioned section of the _Grundriss der romanischen Philologie_,
pp. 440-442.
[40] See the _Arcadia di Jacobo Sannazaro secondo i manoscritti e le
prime stampe con note ed introduzione di Michele Scherillo_ (Torino,
1888).
[41] _Ibid._, pp. cclxi.-cccxliv.
[42] Compare, for example, Garcilaso's lines:--
Tengo vna parte aqui de tus cabellos,
Elissa, embueltos en vn blanco paño;
Que nunca de mi seno se me apartan.
Descojolos, y de vn dolor tamaño
Enternecer me siento, que sobre 'llos
Nunca mis ojos de llorar se hartan,
Sin que de allí se partan:
Con sospiros calientes,
Mas que la llama ardientes:
Los enxugo del llanto, y de consuno
Casi los passo y cuento vno a vno,
Iuntandolos con vn cordon los ato,
Tras esto el importuno
Dolor, me dexa descansar vn rato.
with the lines sung by Meliseo at the end of Sannazaro's twelfth
_egloga_:--
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