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GARCIA DE RESENDE (1470-1536)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 182 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GARCIA DE See also:RESENDE (1470-1536)  , Portuguese poet and editor, was See also:born at See also:Evora, and began to serve See also:John II. as a See also:page at the See also:age of ten, becoming his private secretary in 1491 . He was See also:present at his See also:death at Alvor on the 25th of See also:October 1495 . He continued to enjoy the same favour with See also:King Manoel, whom he accompanied to See also:Castile in 1498, and from whom he obtained a See also:knighthood of the See also:Order of See also:Christ . In 1514 See also:Resende went to See also:Rome with Tristao da Cunha, as secretary and treasurer of the famous See also:embassy sent by the king to offer the See also:tribute of the See also:East at the feet of See also:Pope See also:Leo X . In 1516 he was given the See also:rank of a nobleman of the royal See also:household, and became escrivao de fazenda to See also:Prince John, afterwards King John III., from whom he received further See also:pensions in 1525 . Resende built a See also:chapel in the monastery of Espinheiro near Evora, the See also:pantheon of the See also:Alemtejo See also:nobility, where he was buried . He began to cultivate the making of verses in the See also:palace of John II., and he tells us how one See also:night when the king was in See also:bed he caused him (Resende) to repeat some " trovas " of Jorge See also:Manrique, saying it was as needful for a See also:man to know them as to know the See also:Pater Noster . Under these conditions, Resende See also:grew up no mean poet, and moreover distinguished himself by his skill in See also:drawing and See also:music; while he collected into an See also:album the best See also:court See also:verse of the See also:time . The Cancioneiro Geral, probably begun in 1483 though not printed until 1516, includes the compositions of some three See also:hundred fidalgos of the reigns of See also:kings See also:Alphonso V., John II. and Manoel . The See also:main subjects of its pieces are love, See also:satire and See also:epigram, and most of them are written in the See also:national redondilha verse, but the See also:metre is irregular and the rhyming careless . The See also:Spanish See also:language is largely employed, because the See also:literary progenitors of the whole collection were Juan de See also:Mena, Jorge Manrique, Boscan and Garcilasso . As a See also:rule the compositions were improvised at palace entertainments, at which the poets present divided into two bands, attacking and defending a given theme throughout successive evenings .

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form of a See also:mock trial at See also:law, in which the See also:queen of John II. acted as See also:judge . Resende was much twitted by other rhymesters on his See also:corpulence, but he repaid all their gibes with See also:interest . The See also:artistic value of the Cancioneiro Geral is slight . Conventional in See also:tone, the greater See also:part are imitations of Spanish poets and show no trace of See also:inspiration in their authors . The Cancioneiro is redeemed from See also:complete insipidity by Resende himself, and his See also:fine verses on the death of D . Ignez de See also:Castro inspired the See also:great See also:episode in the Lusiads of See also:Camoens (q.v.) . Resende is the compiler of a gossiping See also:chronicle of his See also:patron John II., which, though plagiarized from the chronicle by Ruy de See also:Pina (q.v.), has a value of its own . The past lives again in these pages, and though Resende's anecdotes may be unimportant in themselves, they reveal much of the inner See also:life of the 15th See also:century . Resende's Miscellanea, a rhymed commentary on the most notable events of his time, which is annexed to his Chronicle, is a document full of See also:historical interest, and as a poem not without merit . The See also:editions of his Chronicle are those of 1545, 1554, 1596, 1607, 1622, 1752 and 1798 . His Cancioneiro appeared in 1516, and was reprinted by Kausler at See also:Stuttgart in 3 vols., 1846-52 . A new edition has recently come from the university See also:press at See also:Coimbra .

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critical study of his See also:work, see Excerptos, seguidos de uma noticia sobre sua See also:vida e obras, um juizo critico, apreciafao de bellezas e defeitos e estudo da lingua, by See also:Antonio de See also:Castilho (See also:Paris, 1865) . Also As sepulturas do Espinheiro, by Anselmo Braamcamp, See also:Freire See also:Lisbon, 1901, passim, especially pp . 67-80, where the salient See also:dates in Resende's life are set out from documents recently discovered; and Dr See also:Sousa See also:Viterbo, Diccionario dos Architectos . . . Portuguezes, ii . 361-74 . (E .

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