Note 257 — 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 3)
Thomasina Ross translation
With regard to these portraits, it may be observed that they are not well engraved; but according to the assurance of Brito, they were faithfully copied from the best likenesses extant. It would not be easy to find a portrait of Philip II. of Spain, who is here described as the eighteenth King of Portugal, which so decidedly expresses the character of that austere despot.