Note 660 — VI 1816-1910
Reading edition
The ‘tyranny’ of the day was that of General Beresford. Some scenes of Catão (derived from the Cato (1713) of Addison), of which a Portuguese version by Manuel de Figueiredo (Theatro, vol. viii) had appeared in Garrett’s boyhood, were directed against this English despot. A few years later Garrett learned to enjoy English society, as his Anglophobe biographer, Amorim, admits.