ABSTRACT
The poets in the Peninsula to use the new measures after Garcilaso, adapted them to an even graver music, and to more philosophical themes. Of these Luis de Camoes wrote almost entirely in Portuguese, and although his international reputation rests predominantly on his epic Os Lusladas, he would certainly rank among the best poets of the Renaissance for his lyrical poetry alone. Camoes' almost exact Spanish contemporary, Luis de Leon, a friar and a humanist, reinforced the Latin content of the new poetry and diluted its neo-Petrarchism. Luis de Leon's first important poem, a piece dating from his youth, had been a Horatian ode in praise of the quiet life, written in Garcilaso's lira measure. The most striking work of the new age, the fourteen-act play usually called La Celestina, written by the converted Jew, Fernando de Rojas is roughly- contemporary with the pastoral drama of Encina and the primitive sword and cloak theatre of Torres Naharro.
