Portuguese literatureBell, Aubrey F. G. (Aubrey Fitz Gerald)
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Bell, Aubrey F. G. (Aubrey Fitz Gerald)
Portuguese literature -- History and criticism
[492] Antonio Galvam, _Tratado_, f. 59 v. He visited the Courts of
Charles V, François I, Henry VIII, and Pope Paul III. Nicolás Antonio
says of him (_Bib. Nova_): _morum quippe suavitate atque elegantia,
ergaque doctos liberalitate insinuabat se in cuiusque animum qui
Musarum commercio frueretur, facile atque alte_.
[493] He arrived on Palm Sunday, 1531, and learning that Luther was
preaching at once left the inn to hear him, but could only understand
the Latin quotations. Next day he had dinner (_jantar_) with Luther
and Melanchthon and afterwards returned to Luther’s house, where the
latter’s wife regaled them with a dessert of nuts and apples. Thence
he went to Melanchthon’s house and found his wife spinning, shabbily
dressed.
[494]
Venisti nimium usque et usque et usque
Expectate tuis.
[495] Lib. III, pp. 264, 265: _Aliud Aeolij Modi exemplũ authore D.
Damiano à Goes Lusitano_.
[496] He had gone with others to negotiate terms and, when barely half
an hour was allowed to refer the terms to the Senate, remained in the
enemy’s camp in order to create a delay by conversing with Longueval.
Meanwhile relief had been received and the Senate refused the terms.
[497] In his trial he says that three of them became monks: _meteo tres
filhos frades_.
[498] Cf. _Prologo_: _em que muitos, como em cousa desesperada, se
nam atreveram poer a mão_. One of these ‘many’ was Goes’ rival, the
eloquent Bishop Antonio Pinheiro.
[499] The fourth part was approved on January 2, 1566.
[500] For the grounds of this disapproval see _Crítica contemporanea
á Chronica de D. Manuel_, 1914, ed. Edgar Prestage from a manuscript
in the British Museum. Dr. Joaquim de Vasconcellos and Mr. G. J. C.
Henriques have dealt very ably with many interesting points of Goes’
life and works.
[501] His friend Diogo Mendez de Vasconcellos (1523-99), Canon of
Evora, says that he died in 1575 _aet._ 80 (so the _Theatrum_: _obiit
octogenarius A.C._ 1575). Probably the 5 is an error or misprint for 3,
and the 80 correct.
[502] Luis de Sousa (_Hist. S. Dom._, Pt. I, Bk. i, cap. 2) praises his
_juizo e curiosidade de bom antiquario_, and there are many similar
passages in other writers. Resende furnished Barros, as Severim de
Faria later furnished Brito, with materials and advice.
[503] In a similar though more elaborate work (88 ff.) Frei Nicolau
Diaz (†1596) told the life and death of Princess Joana (†May 1490):
_Vida da Serenissima Princesa Dona Joana, Filha del Rey Dom Afonso o
Quinto de Portugal_ (1585).
[504] _Casamento Perfeyto_, 2ᵃ ed. (1726), p. 61.
[505] _Monarchia Lusitana_, Pt. V, Bk. xvii, cap. 5. Bernardo de Brito
also praises him, and Frei Antonio Brandão acknowledges his debt to
him. Faria e Sousa says that he received from him _cantidad de papeles_.
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