Diogo Bernardes and 'O Lima' (1596): poetry, patronage, and print in early modern Portugal

<p>This thesis examines how the fortunes of poets and the status of poetry were changing at the end of the sixteenth century in Portugal. Centring on the long-neglected verse epistles in Diogo Bernardes's 'O Lima' (1596), I re-evaluate our sense of what it meant to be a poet whe...