_Cancioneiro da Ajuda_--_Cancioneiro da Vaticana_--_Cancioneiro Colocci-Brancuti_--Relations of Portugal with Spain, with France, with other countries--The Galician language--Its extension--Alfonso X--The _Cantigas de Santa Maria_--Poetry at the Court of Afonso III--Provençal poetry in Portugal--Monotony and technical skill of the Portuguese poets--_Cantigas de amigo_--Satiric poems--Joan de Guilhade--Pero Garcia de Burgos--Pero da Ponte--Joan Airas--Fernan Garcia Esgaravunha--Airas Nunez--King Dinis. II. 1325-1521. [i. e. from the accession of Sancho IV to the death of Manuel I.] § 1. _Early Prose_ 58 Comparatively late development of prose--Spanish influence in the second period of Portuguese literature--King Dinis’ translation of the _Cronica Geral_--_Regra de S. Bento_--Translations from the Bible--Sacred legends--Aesop’s Fables--Chronicles--_Livros de Linhagens_--The Breton cycle--The Quest of the Holy Grail--_Livro de Josep ab Arimatia_--_Estorea de Vespeseano_--_Amadis de Gaula_--Problem of its origin--Early allusions--Vasco de Lobeira--Probable introduction of _Amadis_ into the Peninsula through Portugal. § 2. _Epic and Later Galician Poets_ 72 Dearth of epics--Apocryphal poems--Afonso Giraldez--_Romances_--Their connexion with Spain--Survival of Galician lyrics--Macias--Juan Rodriguez de la Cámara--Fernam Casquicio--Vasco Perez de Camões--Gonçalo Rodriguez, Archdeacon of Toro--Garci Ferrandez de Gerena--Alfonso Alvarez de Villasandino--_Cantigas de escarnho_--The Constable D. Pedro. § 3. _The Chroniclers_ 81 Fernam Lopez--_Cronica do Condestabre_--Zurara--Ruy de Pina--_Cronica do Infante Santo._ Other prose: King João I--King Duarte--Pedro, Duke of Coimbra--Letters of Lopo de Almeida--_Boosco Delleytoso_--_Corte Imperial_--_Flos Sanctorum_--_Vita Christi_--_Espelho de Christina_--_Espelho de Prefeyçam_. § 4. _The Cancioneiro Geral_ 96 The break in Portuguese poetry--Its revival--Garcia de Resende--_Cancioneiro Geral_--Its shallow themes--More serious poems--Alvaro de Brito--The _Coudel Môr_--D. João de Meneses--D. João Manuel--Fernam da Silveira--Nuno Pereira--Diogo Brandam--Luis Anriquez--Rodriguez de Sá--The Conde de Vimioso--Duarte de Brito--Spanish influence. III. The Sixteenth Century [1502-80]. § 1. _Gil Vicente_ 106