Teatro Garcia de Resende - Évora, Portugal - People-Named Places on Waymarking.com

THE PLACE
"The theater was inaugurated on June 1, 1892, at the end of a long process started on April 11, 1881 (date of commencement of works), led in the early stages by owner José Maria Dinis Ramalho Perdigao. The death disrupts this works, it resumed briefly in 1886 until 1888, Dr. Eduardo Francisco Barahona Fragoso, though married to the widow of the first, is willing to invest in the completion of the project, whose direction was given the engineer Adriano de Évora A. S. Monteiro."

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THE NAME
"Garcia de Resende (1470–1536) 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 (General Songbook), 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."


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Year it was dedicated: 1892 Location of Coordinates: Front Door Related Web address (if available): [Web Link] Type of place/structure you are waymarking: Theater

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