Note 291 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80]
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His tolerant spirit, expressed in his letter to the King in 1531, was remarkable in an age not very remote from the day when Duarte de Brito wrote to Anton de Montoro (c. 1405-80) that he would have been burnt had he written in Portugal the blasphemous lines addressed to Queen Isabella of Spain:
Si no pariera Sanctana hasta ser nacida vos, de vos el hijo de Dios, rescibiera carne humana.