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FRANCISCO DE MORAES (c. 1500-1572)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 815 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MORAES (c. 1500-1572)  , Portuguese See also:romance writer, was probably See also:born at the See also:close of the 15th See also:century . We know very little of his See also:life, except that he was treasurer of the See also:household to See also:King See also:John III., and he is first found in See also:Paris in the See also:suite of the Portuguese See also:ambassador, D . Francisco de Noronha, who had gone there in 1540 . He was a See also:commander of the See also:Order of See also:Christ, and was called 0 Palmeirim on See also:account of his authorship of the famous romance of See also:chivalry Palmeirim de Inglaterra; in 1572 he was assassinated at See also:Evora . He appears to have written his See also:book in See also:France (perhaps in Paris) in 1544, dedicating it to the Infanta D . Maria, daughter of King Manoel, but the first extant Portuguese edition only came out in 1567 . A See also:Spanish version was published as See also:early as 1548, and on the strength of this many critics have contended that the book was originally written in that See also:language and that See also:Moraes only translated it into Protuguese . Both tradition and a See also:critical examination of the Portuguese and Spanish texts, however, tell overwhelmingly in favour of the first being the See also:original with Moraes as its author . The See also:episode of the four See also:French ladies shows an intimate acquaintance with the See also:court of See also:Francis I., where Moraes spent some years, and one of these ladies named Torsi is the one he loved and to whom he addressed some verses entitled "Desculpa de See also:huns amores." The Palmeirim de Inglaterra belongs to another See also:branch of the same See also:cycle as the Amadis de Gaula; the two romances are the best representatives of their class, and for their merits were spared from the auto da fe to which Cervantes condemned other romances of chivalry in D . Quixote . It has a well-marked See also:plot, clearly See also:drawn characters, and an admirable See also:style, and has been reckoned a Portuguese classic from the See also:time of its issue .

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