del menosprecio e contempto de las cosas fermosas del mundo_ (1455), reflects the misfortunes of his life and the high philosophy they had brought him. Under a false attribution to his father, the Duke of Coimbra[161] (his Portuguese poems were also wrongly ascribed to King Peter I of Portugal, through confusion with the later King Peter, of Aragon), it was incorporated in the _Cancioneiro de Resende_, which appeared half a century after the Constable’s death. FOOTNOTES: [140] 1867 ed., p. 333. [141] Ibid., pp. 304-7. [142] _Cronica de Cister_, Bk. VI, cap. 1, 1602 ed., f. 372. It has been several times reprinted: cf. J. F. Barreto, _Ortografia_ (1671), p. 23; Bellermann, _Die alten Liederbücher_, p. 5; _Grundriss_, p. 163. [143] _Monarchia Lusitana_, 1609 ed., ii. 296 (also in _Miscellanea_, 1867 ed., pp. 25-6; Bellermann, pp. 3-4). [144] See _Grundriss_, p. 205. D. Ramón Menéndez Pidal supports the suggestion of Leonese authorship (_Revista de Filología Española_, I. i (1914), pp. 90-2). [145] See J. Fitzmaurice-Kelly, _Littérature Espagnole_, 1913 ed., p. 64. [146] Cf. Rodriguez Lobo, _Primavera_ (1722 ed.), p. 369: _tinhão os nossos guardadores por muyto difficultoso fazeremse em a lingoa Portugueza, porque a tem por menos engraçada para os romances_. Sousa de Macedo says that _Romance he poesia propria de Hespanha_, but Hespanha here means Spain and Portugal and he instances Góngora and Rodriguez Lobo (_Eva e Ave_, 1676 ed., p. 130). [147] See _infra_, p. 258. [148] _Obras_, 1834 ed., ii. 27. [149] _Hist. da Litt. Port._, ii (1914), pp. 267-87. [150] Ibid., pp. 280-5. [151] _Estudos sobre o Romanceiro Peninsular. Romances velhos de Portugal_, Madrid, 1907-9. [152] Lucena (_Vida_, Bk. III, cap. 3) speaks of _romances velhos em que elles_ [the natives of India] _como nos, por ser o ordinario cantar da gente, guardam o successo das memorias e cousas antigas_. The expression _romance velho_ in the sixteenth century may mean a _romance_ that has gone out of fashion. Cf. Vicente, _Os Almocreves_: _Hei os de todos grosar Ainda que sejam velhos._ _Antigo_ may similarly mean ‘antiquated’ rather than ancient. Barros, _Grammatica_, 1785 ed., p. 163, mentions _rimances antigas_. D. Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcellos considers that the _romances_ came from Spain to Portugal at the latest in the third quarter and perhaps in the first half of the fifteenth century. [153] See _Estudos sobre o Rom. Penins._ (the lines are _Polos campos do Mondego Cavaleiros vi somar_). [154] In later Portuguese his name was often written Mansias. So Moraes transforms Mlle de Macy’s name into Mansi. [155] _Nobleza de Andalvzia_ (1588), ii, f. 272 v. [156] This and two other Macias poems (_Ai que mal aconsellado_ and _Crueldad e trocamento_) are in C. G. C. (Nos. 33, 38, 41) ascribed to Alfonso Alvarez de Villasandino.