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It would have been strange if Erasmus had not heard of Vicente through his friend Andre de Resende, who in his Latin poem Genethliacon declared that had not the comic poet Gil Vicente, actor and author, written in the vulgar tongue he would have rivalled Menander and excelled Plautus and Terence.
In Portugal the number of plays written in the sixteenth century was large,^ but none can be placed on a level with those of Vicente.
One cannot say that he influenced Camoes or Ferreira de Vascon- cel...los deeply, although they had evidently read him. In Spain Cervantes, who read everything, aunque sean los papeles rotos de las calles, had read his plays (the Farsa dos Fisicos, Juiz da Beira, the Comedia de Rubena among others). Lope de Vega likewise, Calderon possibly. Lope de Rueda probably derived the idea of his paso Las Aceitunas from the Auto da Mofina Mendes. Yet it is almost with amazement, if we forget the crowded history of Portugal and Portuguese literature in the sixteenth century, the introduction of the Inquisition, and the great changes in the language, that we find a Portuguese, Sousa de Macedo, a century after Vicente's death, speaking of him as one ' whose style was celebrated of old ',^ and a Spaniard, Nicolas Antonio, declaring that his works were written in prose and know- ing nothing of a collected edition.' It was with reasonable mis- • For a list containing about a hundred see T.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It would have been strange if Erasmus had not heard of Vicente through his friend Andre de Resende, who in his Latin poem Genethliacon declared that had not the comic poet Gil Vicente, actor and author, written in the vulgar tongue he would have rivalled Menander and excelled Plautus and Terence.
In Portugal the number of plays written in the sixteenth century was large,^ but none can be placed on a level with those of Vicente.
One cannot say that he influenced Camoes or Ferreira de Vascon- cel...los deeply, although they had evidently read him. In Spain Cervantes, who read everything, aunque sean los papeles rotos de las calles, had read his plays (the Farsa dos Fisicos, Juiz da Beira, the Comedia de Rubena among others). Lope de Vega likewise, Calderon possibly. Lope de Rueda probably derived the idea of his paso Las Aceitunas from the Auto da Mofina Mendes. Yet it is almost with amazement, if we forget the crowded history of Portugal and Portuguese literature in the sixteenth century, the introduction of the Inquisition, and the great changes in the language, that we find a Portuguese, Sousa de Macedo, a century after Vicente's death, speaking of him as one ' whose style was celebrated of old ',^ and a Spaniard, Nicolas Antonio, declaring that his works were written in prose and know- ing nothing of a collected edition.' It was with reasonable mis- • For a list containing about a hundred see T.
What to read after Portuguese Literature?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Aubrey F G Aubrey Fitz Gerald Bell to read onlineMoreLess
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