Note 7 — INTRODUCTION
Reading edition
It would be interesting to know how many English-speaking persons have ever heard of the great men and writers that were King Dinis, Fernam Lopez, Bernardim Ribeiro, Diogo Bernardez, Heitor Pinto, Frei Thomé de Jesus, Ferreira de Vasconcellos, Frei Luis de Sousa, Antonio Vieira, Manuel Bernardes. Their neglect has been largely due to the absence of good or easily available texts; there is still nothing to correspond to the Spanish Biblioteca de Autores Españoles or the many more modern Spanish collections. But is not even Camões still ‘an abused stranger’, as Mickle called him in 1776?