Portuguese literatureBell, Aubrey F. G. (Aubrey Fitz Gerald)
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Portuguese literature
Bell, Aubrey F. G. (Aubrey Fitz Gerald)
Portuguese literature -- History and criticism
[162] Lopez himself was probably of humble birth. It appears from
a document presented by Dr. Pedro de Azevedo at a meeting of the
_Sociedade Portuguesa de Estudos Historicos_ in July 1916 that his
wife’s niece was married to a shoe-maker.
[163] Zurara, _Cron. D. Joam_, cap. 2.
[164] i.e. eighty-nine years before the first English translation of
Froissart was published. Needless to say, no English translation of
Lopez exists.
[165] A facsimile of a page of this lengthy document is given in Snr.
Braamcamp Freire’s excellent edition of the _Primeira Parte da Crónica
de D. Joam I_ (1915).
[166] See A. Braamcamp Freire, ibid., pp. xl-xlii.
[167] _Fez todas as chronicas dos Reis té seu tempo, começando do
Conde dom Henrique, como prova Damião de Goes_ (Gaspar Estaço, _Varias
Antigvidades de Portugal_ (1625), cap. 21, § 1); cf. Goes, _Cron. de D.
Manuel_, iv. 38.
[168] _Nosso desejo foi em esta obra escrever verdade--nuamente--a nua
verdade_ (_Cr. D. Joam_, _Prologo_).
[169] Zurara, _Cr. D. Joam_, cap. 2. Cf. Lopez’ preface to his _Cr.
D. Joam_: _Oo com quamto cuidado e diligemçia vimos gramdes vollumes
de livros, de desvairadas linguageẽs e terras; e isso meesmo pubricas
escprituras de muitos cartarios e outros logares nas quaaes depois de
longas vegilias e gramdes trabalhos mais çertidom aver nom podemos da
contheuda em esta obra_ (1915 ed., p. 2).
[170] Usually he does this without naming the offender, but he refutes
the _razões_ of Martim Afonso de Mello, a person well known at the
Court of King João I and author of a technical book on the art of war,
_Da Guerra_ (see Zurara, _Cr. D. Joam_, cap. 99). Mello refused the
governorship of captured Ceuta in 1415. A work on a similar subject,
_Tratado da Milicia_, is ascribed to Zurara’s friend and patron. King
Afonso V (Barbosa Machado, i. 19).
[171] _Cr. del Rei D. Fern._, cap. 2: _a ordenança de nossa obra_; _Cr.
D. Joam_, 1915 ed., p. 51: _Certo he que quaaesquer estorias muito
melhor se entemdem e nembram se som perfeitamente e hem hordenadas_;
_Cr. del Rei D. Fern._, cap. 139: _guardando a regra do philosopho_ [of
cause and effect].
[172] _Antología_, iv, p. xx: _Nada hay semejante en las literaturas
extranjeras antes de fin del siglo xv._ The words apply more accurately
to Fernam Lopez.
[173] _Leixados os compostos e afeitados razoamentos_ (_Cr. D. Joam_,
_Prologo_).
[174] The references in cap. 76 and 80 to events of 1451 and 1461 are
evidently later additions.
[175] Cf. _Cr. do Cond._, cap. 14 and 15, with _Cr. del Rei Fern._,
cap. 166.
[176] A. Braamcamp Freire, _Cr. de D. Joam_ (1915), _Introdução_, p.
xxi.
[177] By Matheus de Pisano (whom some have considered the son of
Christine de Pisan). He wrote in Latin: _De Bello Septensi_ (_Ined.
de Hist. Port._, vol. i, 1790), Portuguese tr. Roberto Correia Pinto:
_Livro da Guerra de Ceuta_ (1916).
[178] _Não seja porem algum de tam simples conhecimento que presuma que
este é o teor propria_, &c. (cap. 95).
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