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See also:FREIRE, FRANCISCO JOSE (1719-1773) , Portuguese historian and philologist, was See also:born at See also:Lisbon on the 3rd of See also:January 1719. He belonged to the monastic society of St See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Neri, and was a zealous member of the See also:literary association known as the See also:Academy of Arcadians, in connexion with which he adopted the See also:pseudonym of Candido Lusitano. He contributed much to the improvement of the See also:style of Portuguese See also:prose literature, but his endeavour to effect a See also:reformation in the See also:national See also:poetry by a See also:translation of See also:Horace's Ars poelica was less successful. The See also:work in which he set forth his opinions regarding the vicious See also:taste pervading the current Portuguese prose literature is entitled Maximas sabre a Arte Oratoria (1745) and is preceded by a See also:chronological table forming almost a social and See also:physical See also:history of See also:Portugal. His best known work, however, is his See also:Vida do See also:Infante D. Henrique (1758), which has given him a See also:place in the first See also:rank of Portuguese historians, and has been translated into See also:French (See also:Paris, 1781). He also wrote a poetical See also:dictionary (Diccionario poetico) and a translation of See also:Racine's Athalie (1762), and his Reflexions sur la langue portugaise was published in 1842 by the Lisbon society for the promotion of useful knowledge. He died at. See also:Mafra on the 5th of See also:July 1773.
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