Note 47 — INTRODUCTION TO THE GALATEA.

For Ribeiro, see Madame Michaëlis de Vasconcellos, op. cit., pp. 291-295. Ribeiro's work seems to have been printed posthumously, the earliest known edition being issued at Ferrara in 1554. But, as Madame Michaëlis de Vasconcellos observes (p. 295, n. 8): "Dass lange vor dem ital. Drucke Ribeiro's wie Falcao's Werke grossen Ruf hatten, steht ausser Zweifel. Sie müssen in Handschriften oder Flugblättern unter den Lesenden Kurs gehabt haben." It is, perhaps, not superfluous to mention that Ribeiro's Menina e moça, like Virgil's Formosum Corydon ardebat Alexim, takes its title from the opening words.