Livro das obras de Garcia de Reesende [sic], que tracta da vida & grandissimas virtudes & bo[n]dades, magnanimo efforço, excelentes costumes & manhas & muy craros [sic] feitos do christianissimo…

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Anselmo, Bibliografia das obras impressas em Portugal no século XVI, n° 383 ; USTC, n° 346675 ; Barbosa Machado, Biblioteca Lusitana, 1747 : II, p. 328 ; Palau, n° 262163. Deuxième édition des œuvres de Garcia de Resende. Ouvrage majeur pour l’historiographie portugaise du XVIᵉ siècle, dont le texte principal est la biographie panégyrique du roi Jean II de Portugal qui règna 1481 à 1495. Garcia de Resende (vers 1470-1536), secrétaire et chroniqueur de la maison royale sous D. João II puis D. Manuel Iᵉʳ, offre un témoignage direct sur la vie de cour et ses usages, et relate les principaux événements politiques du règne tout en glorifiant le souverain. « Resende’s devotion to the great King together with his wide knowledge, his intimacy with the Sovereign,who reposed entire confidence in him, and his life at court, give his chronicle a special interest and charm. There is no possible doubt that he was a plagiarist: he openly made use ofthe manuscript of Ruy de Pina’s chronicle, which was not printed until 1792. A comparison of the two chronicles shows, however, that while Pina begins with Dom João II’s elevation to the throne in 1481, saying nothing about his youth, Resende’s Life begins with an interesting study entitled Appearance, virtues, hahits and practices of King João II, and contains a further twenty chapters about Dom João, from his birth until the death ofDom Affonso V. From there onwards Resende not only followed in the footsteps of the Chief Chronicler, but shamele

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