Anotações sobre o "Cancioneiro geral" de Resende

Notes on Resende’s Cancioneiro Geral. The present paper tries to focus on some issues relating to Garcia de Resende’s Cancioneiro Geral (1516) from the viewpoint of the compilation of court poetry by exploring among others texts of the epigraphs at the beginning of some compositions.Anotações sobre o «Cancioneiro Geral» de Resende. O presente trabalho procura focar algumas questões relacionadas como Cancioneiro Geral de Garcia de Resende (1516) sob o ponto de vista de compilação de poesia de corte, explorando nomeadamente os textos das epígrafes de várias composições. &nbsp

O humanista e a cidade : lucubrações erasmianas

«What other thing is the city but a large monastery» (letter to Martinho Dorp, 1518); «I have always let myself be enchanted by the large buildings and the big cities» (letter to Johann Choler, 1529). These two phrases by Desiderius Erasmus synthesise the theme of this article: the idea of the humanist from Rotterdam that the life of Christians should concentrate on the imitation and on the philosophy of Christ. Contrary to the so frequent praise of rural life during the Renaissance, Erasmus valued and appreciated the familiarity provided by the city both in friendship and on an intellectual level

Camões em Babilónia : «Sobre os Rios» glosa de salmo e poética

The current approach to Camões’ roundel «Sobre os Rios» conveys an attempt to analyse the poem according to the following guidelines: i) its relationship with the Psalm «super flumina Babylonis», taking into account the known manuscript testimonies from the second half of the 16th century; ii) the relationship between the subject of enunciation and the possible receivers of the discourse, considering other places in Camões’ lyrical poetry where they are more explicitly evoked; iii) the poem’s internal organisation, noting that its construction does not offer a well-defined coherent structure; iv) the relationship between the poem and a lyrical culture focused on amorous sentiments, in which at least three major aspects converge: the Petrarchan code, the troubadour tradition of courtly lyricism, and elements of Neo-Platonist philosophy

Virtus est vitium fugere

Based in Camões’s edition of the Rimas published by Costa Pimpão in 1973, this paper analysis two terms found in his lyric work, the words virtue and vice. Other expressions evolve around these two words, all of which involve in a semantic relationship centred in the meaning of the two terms. The study confirmed that if a word such as desire(s) is evenly represented in the different genres found in the Rimas, others, such as virtue, vice or affection, are especially congregated in the "major genres"

Luís de Camões e Ausias March

Ausias March represents a high point in late medieval Catalan poetry. Despite the possibility of identifying political and cultural relationships between Portugal and Catalonia during the 15th century, the origins of 17th-century relations between the poetic work of Camões and the poetry written in Limousin established by Faria e Sousa should be looked for in the Castilian translation of Montemor and in the similarities with the ¿philosophy of love¿, rather than in a formal intertextuality between these two Iberian poets