Obras De Bernardim Ribeiro...

by Bernardim Ribeiro

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394 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Bernardim Ribeiro was a Renaissance Portuguese poet and writer.

His father, Damião Ribeiro, was implicated in the conspiracy against King John II of Portugal. His Livro das saudades, mostly known as Menina e moça (taken from its incipit) and translated as Maiden and Modest in English, is one of the finest examples of the genre of pastoral romance in Renaissance literature.

Reviews

[Marinho Lopes · Rating 3 out of 5]

O livro pode-se dividir na obra “Menina e Moça” (“Saudades”) e os poemas. No que toca à “Menina e Moça”, a leitura não é fácil, pois o português quinhentista é um “pouco” diferente do actual… Embora não tenha sido escrito em verso, eu diria que o estilo se parece mais com poesia do que com prosa. Quanto ao conteúdo, em suma gostei de algumas reflexões do escritor e desgostei do enredo por ser um pouco repetitivo. No que toca aos poemas, salta à vista a repetição incansável do tema: “um pastor rejeitado pela sua amada e que por isso quer morrer”. Contudo, e talvez curiosamente, é bastante mais fácil de compreender a escrita presente nos poemas do que no livro “Menina e Moça”. Os poemas, apesar de bastante simples, denotam bem o talento do escritor para a musicalidade na sua escrita.