Note 399 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80] (continued 2)

Um largo discurso da cortesania vulgar, f. 178 v. Cf. f. 5: pretende mostraruos ao olho o rascunho da vida cortesaã. On f. 5 v. it is called esta selada Portuguesa. The courtiers spend all the time they can spare from the pursuit of love in discussing the rival merits of the romance velho and new-fangled sonnet, of Boscán and Garci Lasso, of Spanish and Portuguese, a line of a Latin poet, &c.