Portrait of Anarda or the acute lyre of Manuel Botelho de Oliveira

Abstract

Música do parnaso was published in 1705 and it was reissued only in the twentieth century. This long period out of circulation seems to be related to a nationalist literature conception in the late eighteenth century, that was intensified during the Brazilian Romanticism and made the access to this book difficult to readers. In this article we propose to analyze a few Manuel Botelho de Oliveira’s poems, considering aspects related to the seventeenth-century’s poetic.