'The best part of me'. The matrimonial epistles by Pêro Andrade Caminha
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https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v23i45.33574Keywords:
Epistolography, Humanism, Renaissance, XVIth century, Portuguese Literature.Abstract
In two particularly impressive moments of history of the epistolography, Pêro Andrade Caminha (1520-1580), one of the most important poets in the XVIth-century Portuguese Literature, wrote about the Christian mariage. It was a new subject in which Caminha emulated and expanded the Horatian model of verse epistles. The two letters of Andrade Caminha – the first, adressed to Alexandre Farnese, and the second one to D. Miguel de Noronha – has taken as reference the epithalamy, a literary genre dedicated to bride and groom. According to this, it is possible to investigate the conception about the mariage subject as a true friendship and, in complementary perspective, the poetry as an aristocratic and spiritual value.
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