Note 1 — INTRODUCTION

A few Portuguese sixteenth-century writers in touch with Italy may have known of their existence. But they were neglected as rusticas musas. The references to King Dinis as a poet by Antonio Ferreira and once in the Cancioneiro Geral do not of course imply that his poems were known and read. André de Resende seems to have been more interested in tracing an ancestor, Vasco Martinez de Resende, than in the poets among whom this ancestor figured (see C. Michaëlis de Vasconcellos, Randglosse XV in Ztft. für rom. Phil., xxv. 683).