Note 134 — II 1325-1521

Cronica de D. Fernando, cap. 177. The year of his death, given as 1403, is quite uncertain. Soares de Brito in the Theatrum forms no independent opinion: ‘Vascus de Lobeyra inter Lusitanos Scriptores enumeratur a Faria.... Floruit tempore Fernandi Regis.’ Antonio Sousa de Macedo, in Flores de España, also follows Faria: Vasco de Lobeira fué el primero que con gentil habilidad escribió libros de caballerías. Nicolás Antonio (1617-84), Bib. Nov., 1688 ed., ii. 322, says that Vasco de Lobeira vulgo inter cives suos existimari solet auctor celeberrimi inter famosa scripti Historia de Amadis de Gaula ... cuius laudes nos inter Anonymos curiose collegimus. Ostendere autem Lusitanos Amadisium hunc Lusitane loquentem, uti Castellani Castellanum ostendunt, ius et aequum esset in dubia re ne verbis tantum agerent. The challenge in the last sentence is of interest, as coming in date between the two statements (by Leite Ferreira and the Conde da Ericeira) asserting the existence of the Portuguese text.