THE MOST, AND LESS, KNOWN MYTHOGRAPHERS IN PORTUGAL

Abstract

This article is in the nature of a report on a particular group of books from a database of Portuguese holdings of art treatises and other literature that has been an important source for artists built for ART TREATISES IN PORTUGAL research project. The study of editions, versions and translations of the most, and less, known mythographers in Portugal from Boccaccio until Balthazar de Vitoria is the main aim of this study. After analyzing which were the authors, books and languages more accessible to Portuguese, we have concluded that after the edition of the Teatro de los Dioses de la Gentilidade (1620-23) by the Spanish fray Baltazar de Vitoria, this book was preferable to the Imagini degli dei (1556) by the Italian Vincenzo Cartari.