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Damião de Góis's Livro de Linhagens: An Untold (Hi)Story

2015; Modern Humanities Research Association; Volume: 31; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/port.2015.0009

2222-4270

Catarina Fouto,

Libraries, Manuscripts, and Books

This paper is a first critical approach to the Livro de Linhagens by Damião de Góis (currently preserved in several manuscript copies). It discusses the problems surrounding the authorship of the work and proposes a dating and sources for some of its sections. The article places the Livro de Linhagens in the public and literary career of Góis (especially the Crónica do Felicíssimo Rei D. Manuel) and situates it within the thriving tradition of books of lineage in late medieval and Renaissance Portugal. The analysis of selected passages of the text (including its prologue) sheds light on whom Góis was addressing in his work and how he perceived the task of the writer of genealogies.