Note 324 — CHAP. III. HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE POETRY AND ELOQUENCE, FROM THE LATTER YEARS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY UNTIL TOWARDS THE CLOSE OF THE SEVENTEENTH.

Besides the Fenix renascida, which contains an account of most of the Portuguese sonneteers of the seventeenth century, there is a later, but upon the whole a much worse collection of the same sort, which comprises only two volumes, though it extends beyond the close of the eighteenth century. It is entitled:—Eccos que o clarim da Fama dà; Postilhaõ de Apollo, &c. (Echos which resound from the trumpet of Fame, or the Postillion of Apollo.) The title is still longer, and the remainder is in still worse taste. The collection was published at Lisbon in the year 1761.