D. Manuel of Portugal (c.1520-1606) published his Works a year before his death, in 1605, a thick volume gathering a broad set of poems whose theme was exclusively religious. The poems in which for decades he exalted human love have no place here. This attitude can only be understood as his way of clearly renouncing poetry whose object was «human affection», surpassed in the meantime by his involvement with the...
Jorge de Montemor's choice for Castilian as a literary language, apart from other explanations that have to do with biographical circumstances, may translate a deliberate position in favour of a certain type of cultural Iberism: using a lingua franca to promote the dissemination of authors and works written in the different Iberian languages outside their specific and natural linguistic regions, to facilitate f...
The epic poem Malaca conquistada is studied in this article from a perspective which attempts to articulate literary analysis with cultural history, i.e. genealogical representation. This type of interpretation gives value to the symbolic function which, in this framework, Francisco de Sá de Meneses' options can assume when he attributes more or less relevant roles of historie (or historically inspired) figures...
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