Note 107 — 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.

Poemas Lusitanos is a title which in the sixteenth century no Portuguese poet except Ferreira would have applied to his writings. The word Poema has never been received into the language of common life in Portugal.