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JOAO LOBEIRA (c. 1233-1285)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 837 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOBEIRA (c. 1233-1285)  , a Portuguese See also:troubadour of the See also:time of See also:King See also:Alphonso III., who is supposed to have been the, first to reduce into See also:prose the See also:story of Amadis de Gaula (q.v.) . D . Carolina See also:Michaelis de Vasconcellos, in her masterly edition of the Cancioneiro de Ajuda (See also:Halle, 1904, vol . 1. pp . 523-524), gives some See also:biographical notes on Joao See also:Lobeira, who is represented in the Colocci Brancuti Canzoniere (Halle, 188o) by five poems (Nos . 230.233) . In number 230, Joao Lobeira uses the same ritournelle that Oriana sings in Amadis de Gaula, and this has led to his being generally considered by See also:modern supporters of the Portuguese See also:case to have been the author of the See also:romance, in preference to Vasco de Lobeira, to whom the prose See also:original was formerly ascribed . The folklorist A . See also:Thomas Pires (in his Vasco de Lobeira, See also:Elvas, 1905), following the old tradition, would identify the novelist with a See also:man of that name who flourished in Elvas at the dose of the 14th and beginning of the 15th See also:century, but the documents he publishes contain no reference to this Lobeira being a man of letters .

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