Note 418 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80] (continued 2)

See the important work by Dr. Rodrigues: As Fontes dos Lusiadas (1904-1913). Cf. Camões’ Vão os annos decendo (x. 9) and Leal Conselheiro (cap. 1, p. 18), where the words are used in the same connexion. With Virgil he was obviously acquainted at first hand, with Homer perhaps in the translation of the Florentine scholar Lorenzo Valla (1405-57). In As Fontes dos Lusiadas is also discussed the origin of the word Lusiads, as by D. Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcellos in O Instituto, vol. lii (1905), pp. 241-50: Lucius Andreas Resendius Inventor da palavra Lusiadas. It was one of the Latin words acclimatized by Camões. It occurs in a Latin poem by André de Resende, Vicentius Levita et Martyr (1545), and in his Encomium Erasmi written, but not published, in 1531; in a Latin poem by Jorge Coelho, perhaps written in 1526 but touched up before its publication in 1536; and is twice used by Manuel da Costa (in and about 1537).