Note 232 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80]
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The authority is Cristovam Alão de Moraes in his manuscript Pedatura Lusitana (1667) (No. 441 in the Public Library of Oporto). This genealogist, says Castello Branco, era ás vezes ignorante e outras vezes mal intencionado. He does not say that Martim Vicente exercised his alleged profession of silversmith at Guimarães, or that Gil was born there. What more probable than for Guimarães, proud of its poetical traditions, to invent a silversmith father for the famous poet-goldsmith? Pedro de Poyares, Tractado em louvor da villa de Barcellos (1672), says that Gil Vicente, em tempo de D. João o terceiro poeta celebre, foi natural de Barcellos e andam algumas cousas suas impressas.