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Four Plays of Gil Vicente

Note 51 — I. LIFE AND PLAYS OF GIL VICENTE

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That the illness of the Queen would not prevent the entertainment is proved by the fact that in the month before her death King Manuel was present at a fight between a rhinoceros and an elephant in a court in front of Lisbon's India House. We do not know if Vicente was present nor what he thought of this new thing.

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