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  HISTORY

  OF

  SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE

  LITERATURE.




  HISTORY

  OF

  SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE

  LITERATURE.

  BY

  FREDERICK BOUTERWEK.

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  IN TWO VOLUMES.

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  Translated from the Original German,

  BY THOMASINA ROSS.

  VOL. II.

  PORTUGUESE LITERATURE.

  LONDON:
  BOOSEY AND SONS, BROAD STREET.

  1823.

E. Justins, Printer, 41, Brick Lane, Spitalfields.




PREFACE.


For much of the valuable information which the following History of
Portuguese Literature contains, the author acknowledges himself to be
indebted to the communications of a learned Portuguese, with whom he
became acquainted after the materials he had previously collected were
arranged for publication. M. Bouterwek originally intended to comprise
what he had to say, on Portuguese literature, in a brief sketch, which
was to form a supplement to the preceding volume; but the assistance of
his literary friend enabled him to make the present volume a suitable
companion to his history of the sister literature of the Peninsula.
In England commercial interests may have induced many persons to make
themselves acquainted with the language of Portugal, but the literature
of that country has hitherto been studied by few. With the exception
of Camoens, even the names of the principal Portuguese authors are
scarcely known to us. The greater novelty of the subject is therefore
an advantage which this second volume possesses over the first.




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