What is Gil Vicente?
{{about|Portuguese playwright|the association football club|Gil Vicente F.C.}} '''Gil Vicente''' (1470-1540) was a Portuguese poet and playwright. == Biography == Gil Vicente was born in 1470 in the town of Guimarães.<ref name=EB>[https://archive.org/stream/encyclopaediabri28chisrich#page/18/mode/2up The Encyclopaedia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information.]</ref> He came to Lisbon<ref name=PV/> as a boy.<ref name=EB/> He studied law but did not take any scholarly degree.<ref name=EB/> In 1493 he was prince Manoel's teacher of rhetorics.<ref name=EB/> Some of his poems were included into [[Cancioneiro Geral]]<ref name=EB/> by Garcia de Resende.<ref name=PV>[http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/vercial/gvicente.htm Gil Vicente at Projecto Vercial]{{Dead link|date=February 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He wrote plays.<ref name=EB/> He was an actor, too.<ref name=EB/> He was married to Branca Bezerra and had four children.<ref name=EB/> His daughter Paula was known a learned woman at the court.<ref name=EB/> == Works == Gil Vicente wrote poetry and plays.<ref name=PV/> He wrote both in Portuguese and in Spanish.<ref name=EB/> He is called the father of Portuguese drama.<ref name=EB/> His works were translated into English by Aubrey F. G. Bell. Among his poems there are vilancetes, pastoral poems. A famous example is ''Adorae montanhas''. == Bibliography == * [https://archive.org/details/gilvicente00belluoft Aubrey F. G. Bell, ''Gil Vicente'', Oxford University Press, Oxford 1921.] * [https://archive.org/details/fourplaysofgilvi00viceuoft ''Four plays of Gil Vicente''. Edited from the editio princeps (1562), with Translation and Notes by Aubrey F. G. Bell, Cambridge 1920.] * [https://archive.org/details/lyricsofgilvicen00vice ''Lyrics of Gil Vicente'' with Portuguese text. Translated by Aubrey F. G. Bell, B. H. Blackwell, Oxford 1914.] == References == <references/> {{DEFAULTSORT:Vicente, Gil}} [[Category:1470 births]] [[Category:1540 deaths]] [[C