Note 105 — 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.

The biographical sketch here given is collected from the well written Vida do Doutor Antonio Ferreira, prefixed to the new edition of Ferreira’s Poemas Lusitanos, Lisboa, 1771, in 2 volumes octavo. This edition, though not remarkable for elegance, is printed with tolerable correctness, and contains also the author’s dramas. Notices extracted from Nicolas Antonio and Barbosa Machado, respecting the older editions of Ferreira’s works, may be found in Dieze’s Remarks on Velasquez.