Note 167 — 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)

Manuel de Faria y Sousa was the first who started this question, which is now generally decided against Diogo Bernardes. Notices on this subject maybe found in the prefaces to the third and fourth volumes of the new and elegant edition of the Obras de Luis de Camoõe, segunda edição da que se fez em Lisboa, nos annos 1779 e 1780. Lisbon 1782, in five small volumes. A mythological and historical index to the Lusiad, though a very imperfect one, enhances the value of this edition. The older editions of the works of Camoens are noticed by Dieze in his appendix to Velasquez. Manuel de Faria y Sousa’s commentary on the works of Camoens, pedantic as it is, contains some useful historical elucidations.