Note 136 — CHAP. II. HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE POETRY AND ELOQUENCE FROM THE EPOCH OF THE INTRODUCTION OF THE ITALIAN STYLE, TILL TOWARDS THE END OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. (continued 2)
Thomasina Ross translation
The first edition of the Lusiad was printed in the year 1572, and the poem itself was chiefly written in the East Indies. Tasso read it, and praised the author in a sonnet which has been preserved. The first edition of Jerusalem Delivered appeared in 1580, and consequently, a year after the death of Camoens. (See the History of Italian Poetry and Eloquence, vol. ii. p. 226.)