Note 330 — CHAP. III. HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE POETRY AND ELOQUENCE, FROM THE LATTER YEARS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY UNTIL TOWARDS THE CLOSE OF THE SEVENTEENTH.

To the honour of Portugal this book has been frequently reprinted. Its title is simply as follows:—Vida de Dom Joaõ de Castro, quarto Viso-Rey da India, por Jacinto Freire de Andrada.

Barbaso Machado’s catalogue states that the first edition appeared in folio in the year 1651. A neat pocket edition in octavo was published by a Lisbon bookseller in Paris in the year 1759. The work was translated into English in the seventeenth century by Henry Herringman, and shortly afterwards a latin translation was executed by the Italian Jesuit Del Rosso, who in reference to Andrada’s historical style, not injudiciously observes: Elegantiam sectatur, sed non ieiunam; acumen, sed minime illiberale. To men of education, wishing to learn the Portuguese language, there is no book that I would more strongly recommend than this excellent biography.