Portugal, Old and Young, an Historical Stuudy
' < 5 M: din ,; v' '-;'.>': ; ;>:'.'' V- - m, IBS ''>. : :;'' ': ;. ,V :'.<"...' Bill'''"':'':'' PORTUGAL OLD AND YOUNG Oxford University Press London Edinburgh Glasgow New Tork Toronto Melbourne Cape Town Bombay Humphrey Milford Publisher to the University IS32.5 ^v? PORTUGAL OLD AND YOUNG AN HISTORICAL STUDY BY GEORGE YOUNG AUTHOR OF 'CORPS DE DROIT OTTOMAN'; 'NATIONALISM AND WAR IN ' THE NEAR EAST ; 'PORTUGAL: AN ANTHOLOGY' FORMERLY SECRETAKY OF LEGATION, LISBON OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1917 The Altar-piece of San Vicente, by Nuno Gonsalvez, of which one to this is one the panel is reproduced as a frontispiece book, of few surviving and us the masterpieces of Portuguese mediaeval painting, gives portraits was a Great of some of the leading personages of the period when Portugal Power. The youth kneeling before St. Vincent in theforeground is Affonzo V, ' ' and the is his el rey cavalleiro (b. 1432, k. 1438, d. 1481), lady opposite he claimed the Crown wife and niece, the Infante of Castile, through whom of Castile. The Castilians resisted the union, made Isabella her younger sister Queen, defeated the Portuguese at Toro, 1476, as completely as they had been defeated by the Portuguese at Aljubarrota in 1383, and founded the Kingdom of Spain by marrying Isabella to Ferdinand of Aragon. Affonzo ' was also involved in Moroccan adventures, which earned him the title of the ' African and nothing much else. The child behind is his son, John 11 ' k. d. the intellectual the Perfect' (b. 1433, 1481, 1493), and careworn face in the background, under a large hat, is no other than Prince Henry the Navigator uncle of Affonzo and son of John the Great and Philippa, daughter of John of Gaunt the most illustrious and interesting personality of this Anglo-Portuguese dynasty.
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