[534] _De Rebvs Emmanvelis_ (1571), p. 380: _Non erat alienus a literis, & cum otium erat lectione sacrarum praecipue literarum oblectabatur._ [535] Pt. 1, 1572 ed., f. 224: _não feyto por mão do nosso Olãda nẽ do vosso Michaël Angelo mas por meu bayxo ingenho_. [536] Or Gonçalo Fernandez of Trancoso (Beira). His name has no connexion with the phrase _contar historias a trancos_ (_de coq à l’âne_). [537] Preface addressed to the Queen in Pt. 1. His object was _prender a imaginação em ferros_. [538] Timoneda’s _El Patrañuelo_ appeared in the following year. [539] See, however, Dr. Agostinho de Campos’ selections (1921). [540] _O que aprendi, ouui ou li_ (1624 ed.); _o que aprendi, vi ou li_ (1734 ed.). [541] See Menéndez y Pelayo, _Orígenes de la Novela_, tom. ii (1907), p. lxxxvii et seq. [542] The alternation of the indigenous and the exotic may be seen in the spelling of the same name as Piro (= Pero, Pedro, Peter) and Pyrrho (Pyrrhus) in iii. 8. [543] _Ropica Pnefma_, 1869 ed., p. 2. [544] _Dialogos_, 1604 ed., f. 157. A third edition of _Clarimundo_ (1601) had appeared before the second edition of the _Dialogos_. [545] _Corte na Aldea_ (1619), _Dialogo_ 1 (1722 ed., p. 5). [546] Moraes, _Dialogo_ 1 (1852 ed., p. 11). [547] Barbosa Machado seems to have considered him much under seventy at the time of his death in 1572. [548] The tradition, mentioned by Cervantes, that it was written by a learned and witty king of Portugal is clearly traceable to that other tradition that King João III as Infante had been joint-author of _Clarimundo_. [549] Mount Brandon, Smerwick (and The Three Sisters) of the ‘pleasant’ but ‘densely wooded’ coast of Kerry, are Greek to the Spanish translator and become San Cebrian (Cyprian) and San Maurique. [550] The title continues: _que tinha com hũa dama francesa da raynha dona Leanor per nome Torsi, sendo Portugues, pela quai fez a historia das damas francesas no seu Palmeirim_. [551] It is scarcely possible that the author (Francisco Vazquez?) considered that Burgos, as his birthplace--his mother--had a part in the work. [552] From being merely the legend above, the mounted knight on the title-page _Dom Duardos de Bretanha_ became the title of the book. § 7. _Religious and Mystic Writers_