Sonetos a D. Guiomar, Filha do Doutor Pedro Nunes [“Sonnets to D. Guiomar, Daughter of Pedro Nunes”]. Edited by Joaquim Ignacio de Freitas.

LEÃO (LEON), GIL NUNES DO.

Imprensa da Universidade

Coimbra

1826

Second enlarged edition. Uncut copy.

Gil Nunes do Leão (Leon) was the nephew of the celebrated 16th-century chronicler and grammarian Duarte Nunes de Leão (1530-1608). Besides writing works on the Portuguese language, Duarte Nunes do Leão wrote Descripção do Reino de Portugal (1610) which was edited by the nephew Gil Nunes do Leão. According to H.P. Salomon et al, Duarte Nunes do Leão was a New Christian (i.e., of Jewish descent). See A.S. Saraiva, H.P. Salomon, I.S.D. Sassoon, The Marrano Factory: The Portuguese Inquisition and Its New Christians, 1536-1765 (2001) p. 121.