Francisco Rodrigues Lobo
Dialogue and Courtly Lore in Renaissance Portugal
190 pp., 6 x 9, notes, bibl
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-9109-4
Published: January 1971
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This work examines the dialogue tradition as it shaped the structure and themes of Lobo's seventeenth-century classic. Lobo's departure from earlier views of courtly lore is shown in his preference for social eloquence and literary cultivation over nobility of character and physical prowess.