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CARVALHO (Joaquim de). Sobre a Erudição de Gomes Eanes de Zurara. Coimbra. 1949. - CARVALHO (Joaquim de) Sobre a Erudição de Gomes Eanes de Zurara . Notas em torno de alguns plágios deste Cronista. Coimbra: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, 1949. [2], 160 pp.; 235 mm. A philological criticism study on the classical erudition of Gomes Eanes de Zurara, the second chief chronicler of the kingdom and chief keeper of the Torre do Tombo archives during the reign of King Afonso V, author of the chronicles of the Capture of Ceuta, the Conquest of Guinea, and the Counts Pedro and Duarte de Meneses. Joaquim de Carvalho meticulously analyzes Zurara's citations of Latin authors – Julius Caesar, Sallust, Livy, Pliny, Valerius Maximus, Ovid, Lucan, Cicero, Seneca, Vegetius, among others – demonstrating that several of these borrowings are not marked as such, constituting plagiarism in the proper sense of the term, and situating the true scope of the chronicler's classical culture within the context of the educated generation of King Afonso V's court. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate