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See also:GARBLE (a word derived from the Arab. gharbala, to sift, and related to ghirbal, a See also:sieve; the Arabic words are of See also:foreign origin, probably from the See also:Lat. cribrum, a sieve) , originally a See also:medieval commercial See also:term in the Mediterranean ports, meaning to sort out, or to sift merchandize, such as See also:corn, spices, &c., in See also:order to See also:separate what was See also:good from the refuse or See also:waste; hence to select the best of anything for retention . Similarly a " garbler " was an See also:official who was appointed to sort out, or test the See also:work of those who had already sorted, the spices or drugs offered for See also:sale in the See also:London markets . In this See also:original sense the word is now obsolete, but by See also:inversion, or rather perversion, " See also:garble " now means to sort out or select, chiefly from books or other See also:literary See also:works, or from public speeches, some portion which twists, mutilates, or renders ineffective the meaning of the author or See also:speaker . GARCcAO, PEDRO See also:ANTONIO JOAQUIM CORR)@A (1724– followed in 1823 by his Il Fazzoletto . In 1824 he went to London, 1772), Portuguese lyric poet, was the son of Philippe See also:Correa da Serra, a fidalgo of the royal See also:house who held an important See also:post in the See also:foreign See also:office; his See also:mother was of See also:French descent . The poet's See also:health was frail, and after going through a Jesuit school in See also:Lisbon and learning See also:English, French and See also:Italian at See also:home, he proceeded in 1742 to the university of See also:Coimbra with a view to a legal career . He took his degree in 1748, and two years later was created a See also:knight of the Order of See also:Christ . In 1751 his See also:marriage with D . Maria Salema brought him a See also:rich See also:dower which enabled him to live in ease and cultivate letters; but in later years a See also:law-suit reduced him to poverty . From 176o to 1762 he edited the Lisbon See also:Gazette . In 1756, in See also:conjunction with Cruz e See also:Silva and others, Garcao founded the See also:Arcadia Lusitana to reform the prevailing See also:bad See also:taste in literature, identified with Seicentismo, which delighted in conceits, windy words and rhetorical phrases . The Arcadia fulfilled its See also:mission to some extent, but it lacked creative See also:power, became dogmatic, and ultimately died of inanition .
Garcao was the See also:chief contributor to its proceedings, bearing the name of " See also:Corydon Erimantheo," and his orations and See also:dissertations, with many of his lyrics, were pronounced and read at its meetings
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He lived much in the society of the English residents in Lisbon, and he is supposed to have conceived a See also:passion for an English married See also:lady which completely absorbed him and contributed to his ruin
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In the midst of his literary activity and growing fame, he was arrested on the See also:night of the 9th of See also:April 1771, and committed to See also:prison by See also:Pombal, whose displeasure he had incurred by his See also:independence of See also:character
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The immediate cause of his incarceration would appear to have been his connexion with a love intrigue between a See also:young friend of his and the daughter of a See also:Colonel Elsden, but he was never brought to trial, and the See also:matter must remain in doubt
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After much solicitation, his wife obtained from the See also: See Innocencio da Silva, Diccionario bibliographico Portuguez, vol. vi. pp . 386-393, and vol. xvii. pp . 182-184; also Dr Theophilo See also:Braga, A Arcadia Lusitana (See also:Oporto, 1899) . (E . |
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