Note 108 — 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.

Manuel de Faria y Sousa in his preface to the 4th vol. of the Fuente de Aganippe, alluding to Ferreira’s eclogues, says, they are written con perdurable dureza y poca dicha en pensamientos y afectos (with tedious frigidity and but little happiness of thought and sentiment.) As far as regards the eclogues, this observation is not altogether erroneous; but in general Faria y Sousa was by no means competent to pronounce an opinion on Ferreira’s works. See History of Spanish Literature, p. 428.