[377] _Homem fidalgo mᵗᵒ cortezão & discretto_ (Rangel Macedo, manuscript _Nobiliario_, in Lisbon _Bib. Nac._); _aquelle galante e elegante cortesão Portugues_ (_licença_ of 1618 ed. of _Ulysippo_). [378] _As primicias do meu rustico engenho, que he a Comedia Eufrosina, e foi ho primeiro fruito que delle colhi, inda bem tenrro._ [379] _Eufrosina_, ii. 5. [380] Discovered by General Brito Rebello in the Torre do Tombo and printed in his _Gil Vicente_ (1902), p. 114. [381] _Orígenes de la Novela_, vol. iii, p. ccxxx. [382] Sousa de Macedo, in _Eva e Ave_ (1676 ed., p. 131), says that he lived in the reign of King João and in the beginning of that of King Sebastian, which confirms the date 1563 as that of his death. [383] Some of its heroes have geographical names, as King Tenarife of the Canary Islands and the Spanish Moor Juzquibel, who now survives in the name of the mountain that falls to the sea above Fuenterrabía. The author shows considerable knowledge of the Basque country, and we may perhaps infer that he was at the French Court and studied the Basque provinces on the way. [384] 1867 ed., p. 21: _como se vee ao diante no triumpho del rey Sagramor_. [385] _Nesta trasladação do triumpho del Rey Sagramor_, ibid., p. viii. [386] A vague tradition placed the 1554 edition in the Lisbon Torre do Tombo, but inquiries in 1916 proved that nothing is known of it there. [387] _Ao esclarecido Principe ja apresentada_, ibid., p. vii. [388] _A primeira parte da Tabola redonda que pera a terceira impressão emendou o Autor em sua vida_ (_Aduertencia ao leitor_). [389] Nicolás Antonio, whose information as to Portuguese books was often far from accurate, says that there were several editions before that of 1616, probably an erroneous deduction from the 1561 title-page. The late Menéndez y Pelayo, who also made many slips in dealing with Portuguese literature, declared that the 1560 edition was in the British Museum, which, however, only possesses a (mutilated) copy of the edition of Evora, 1561 (lacking the colophon with the date). Of the 1561 edition several copies exist, that of the Torre do Tombo, that in the library of the late Snr. Francisco Van Zeller at Lisbon, and that of the British Museum. [390] João de Barros, _Dialogo em lovvor da nossa lingvagem_ (1540), wrote that the Portuguese language _parece nam consintir em si hũa tal obra como Celestina_ (1785 ed., p. 222). [391] _La Filomena_, 1621 ed., p. 188. The quotation, if direct, was from the 1561 edition, not that of 1616, in which part of the sentence quoted is omitted, as in the Spanish translation first published ten years later, in 1631.