Produced by Anita Hammond, Wayne Hammond and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) HISTORY OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE LITERATURE. HISTORY OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE LITERATURE. BY FREDERICK BOUTERWEK. [Illustration] IN TWO VOLUMES. [Illustration] Translated from the Original German, BY THOMASINA ROSS. VOL. II. PORTUGUESE LITERATURE. LONDON: BOOSEY AND SONS, BROAD STREET. 1823. E. Justins, Printer, 41, Brick Lane, Spitalfields. PREFACE. For much of the valuable information which the following History of Portuguese Literature contains, the author acknowledges himself to be indebted to the communications of a learned Portuguese, with whom he became acquainted after the materials he had previously collected were arranged for publication. M. Bouterwek originally intended to comprise what he had to say, on Portuguese literature, in a brief sketch, which was to form a supplement to the preceding volume; but the assistance of his literary friend enabled him to make the present volume a suitable companion to his history of the sister literature of the Peninsula. In England commercial interests may have induced many persons to make themselves acquainted with the language of Portugal, but the literature of that country has hitherto been studied by few. With the exception of Camoens, even the names of the principal Portuguese authors are scarcely known to us. The greater novelty of the subject is therefore an advantage which this second volume possesses over the first. TABLE OF CONTENTS. VOL. II. BOOK I. FROM THE END OF THE THIRTEENTH TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. _Page_ Rise of Portuguese poetry 1 Gonzalo Hermiguez and Egaz Moniz, poets of the twelfth century 5 Early essay in epic poetry 8 King Diniz of Portugal, a poet of the thirteenth century 9 Poets of the royal family in the fourteenth century 10 Oldest specimens of Portuguese prose 14 Intimate connection of the Portuguese and Galician poetry.--The Galician poet Macias 15 The Cancioneiros Geraes 17 Deficiency with regard to historical romances--little influence of the cultivation of Latin verse on Portuguese lyric poetry 20 Early cultivation of historical prose in Portuguese literature 21 Increase of Portuguese power, followed by the rapid developement of the national poetry, at the commencement of the sixteenth century 23 Bernardim Ribeyro 24