The Ecloga dos Faunos of Luis de Camoes: Imitation or Intertextuality?

In a humorous scholarly piece penned in the form of a prose eclogue, the commentator Manuel de Faria e Sousa debates the comparatist Lusitania Nau on the Ecloga dos Faunos by Luis de Camoes. He encounters numerous imitations of other texts in the Portuguese poet's seventh eclogue; she focuses on intertextual processes beyond his interpretative ken and that of his readers. All this with the participation of Mato Grosso, Tasmanio, Samosata and her dog Shep, goats, sheep, and a venerable cypress tree.