death_place death_date birth_place nationality birth_date article_title name occupation
Évora , portugal yes 1536 1470 Évora , portugal portuguese 1482 garcia de resende
 garcia de resende poet and editor
garcia de resende

garcia de resende -lrb- 1470 -- 1536 -rrb- was a portuguese poet and editor .
he served john ii as a page and private secretary , and later became a knight in the order of christ .
resende built a chapel in the monastery of espinheiro near Évora , the pantheon of the alentejo nobility , where he was buried .
he compiled the `` cancioneiro geral '' -lrb- general songbook -rrb- , probably starting in 1483 , though not printed until 1516 , which includes the compositions of some three hundred `` fidalgos '' of the reigns of kings afonso v , john ii , and manuel i .
the main subjects of its pieces are love , satire and epigram ; and most of them are written in the national `` redondilha '' verse , but the metre is irregular and the rhyming careless .
the spanish language is largely employed , because the literary progenitors of the whole collection were juan de mena , jorge manrique , boscan and garcilasso .
as a rule the compositions were improvised at palace entertainments , at which the poets present divided into two bands , attacking and defending a given theme throughout successive evenings .
