El manuscrito de las "Várias Obras" de Duarte Días y la cultura Hispano-portuguesa del Siglo de Oro

Abstract

This work intends to shed light on Duarte Días, a little-known 16^th century Portuguese author who wrote poetry in both Portuguese and Spanish during the reign of King Phillip II. This paper provides a biographical approach and analyses his two main works– La conquista de Granada, 1590, and Várias obras em língua portuguesa e castelhana, 1592–, while at the same time serves as an inventory of printed issues of both books known to date. The paper focuses on the codex of the Várias obras, located in Archivo Histórico Nacional in Madrid, within Inquisition section; its great importance is due to the fact that it is one of the few remaining manuscritos de imprenta, i.e., the manuscript in which the printed edition was based on. Finally, this article also presents the different locations of poems both within the codex and the printed issues of Várias obras, along with the critical edition of two unpublished sonnets in Spanish found within Días’ manuscript.