Note 425 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80] (continued 2)
Reading edition
Even here some of the lines are a literal translation of Virgil, but if we compare
Para o ceo crystallino alevantando Com lagrimas os olhos piadosos, Os olhos, porque as mãos, &c.,
with the passage
Ad coelum tendens, &c.,
it is not at all clear that the picture of the older poet is more beautiful than that of il lusiade Maro.