Selected Texts to illustrate the evolution of
the Portuguese Language

Medieval writings

Poetry

• Songs of love (Cantigas de amor)
  sung by a man to the woman he loves in vain
• Songs of the lover (Cantigas de amigo)
  sung by a woman to express her yearning for her lover
• Satirical songs (Cantigas de escárnio e maldizer)

Prose

• The Legends of the British cycle (Ciclo Bretão)
  Demanda do Santo Graal (13th-15th centuries) (excerpt)

• Pedro Afonso, count of Barcelos  
  Crónica Geral de Espanha (1344) (excerpts)

15th and 16th centuries

• Gil Vicente 

• Luís de Camões  
  Os Lusíadas

17th century

18 century

19th century

20th century 

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