Resumen de O poema "De Agnetis Caede" fonte de "Os Lusíadas"
The latin ode De Agnetis Caede is not a masterpiece by André de Resende (as Prof. John Martyn claims), but a modest anonymous poem, whose author probably belonged to the same scholarly milieu as the author of the écloga Conimbrica, also attributed by Martyn to the humanist Resende. Conimbrica ends, indeed, with a playful mention to the lampreys caught in the waters born out of Inês's tears.
This likely exercise by a student of a Jesuit college is thus not the model of the episode of Inês de Castro in Os Lusíadas, as Martyn repeatedly claims, but a poor imitation of the text by Camões.
