GilVicente's prominence as a playwright was a result of his association with the royal court of King John II of Portugal.
The first work of GilVicente's is believed to have been written for the birth of the future king John III in 1502.
GilVicente'strilogy called the Auto das Barcas is considered one of his finest consisting of Auto da Barca do Inferno (Auto of the Ship of Hell, 1516), Auto da Barca do Purgatório (Auto of the Ship of Purgatory, 1518), and Auto da Barco da Glória (Auto of the Ship of Glory or Heaven, 1519).
It is named GilVicente after the Portuguese playwright of the same name.
GilVicente was founded in 3 May 1924, after the creation of other clubs in Barcelos, such as Barcellos Sporting Club and União Foot-ball Club Barcelense.
GilVicente lost its place in the BWINLIGA to Os Belenenses as a result of the Mateus affair, about the Angolan national team player being used in some games, in a way that the "Blues" (Belenenses) consider illegal, because of the usage of regular justice courts, instead of sports courts.
Vicente was attached to the courts of the Portuguese kings Manuel I and John II, and he may have been identical with, or related to, an accomplished goldsmith of the same name at the court.
Vicente's lyric plays and entertainments were created (c.1500c.1536) for production at court, and they varied from slight, farcical interludes to full comedies and tragicomedies.
Some are profoundly religious, some especially satirical; Vicente was antagonistic to the corrupt clergy and pretentious parvenus at the court, and he decried the superficial glory of empire that hid the increasing poverty in Portugal.
He was probably apprenticed to Martim Vicente, a close relative and goldsmith, and it was as a goldsmith that Gil attracted the attention of Queen Leonor, who in 1495 was widowed by King John II.
Its 114 lines are in Spanish, partly in deference to Queen Maria's birthplace (she was a daughter of the Catholic Kings) and partly because Spanish was the fashionable language of the Portuguese upper classes.
Vicente's career as the unofficial court poet was launched, and for the next 34 years he entertained the courts of Manuel I and of John III with his lyrics, music, and dramas.
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GilVicente (1465-1536?) foi o primeiro grande dramaturgo portugués, alén de poeta de renome.
GilVicente que, alén de ter escrito a peza, tambén a encenou e representou, usou, contodo, o cadro relixioso natalicio nunha perspectiva profana.
O seu fillo, Luís Vicente, na primeira compilación de todas as suas obras, classificounas en autos e misterios (de carácter sagrado e devocional) e en farsas, comedias e traxicomedias (de carácter profano).
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Luís Campos Resigns As Gil Vicente Coach. - SoccerPulse Community(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
GilVicente FC coach Luís Campos has resigned in the wake of last night's Portuguese Cup defeat by Odivelas FC, with Ulisses Morais being named as his replacement.
However, GilVicente are bottom of the table seven games into the current campaign and the cup exit was the final straw for the club's board.
GilVicente let go their top players and the results are showing wat a impact they had on the team.
The opulent genius of GilVicente, father of the Portuguese theater, continues to attract the attention of scholars.
Research on Vicente goes unnoticed at times, due primarily to the small circulation or sheer inaccessibility of certain journals or books in which it appears.
It is divided into three main parts: editions and adaptations of complete works, collections and anthologies, individual plays, and miscellaneous works; translations of drama and poetry; and critical studies of books, monographs, theses and pamphlets, chapters in books, essays in collections, journal articles, and histories and dictionaries of literature, culture, music, and art.
Ignez Pereira, usually held to be GilVicente's masterpiece, was produced in 1523 before King John III.
age as GilVicente, and the rudest of his dramas are full of genuine comic feeling.
Some of the plays were printed in GilVicente's lifetime, but the first collected edition, which included his lyrics, was published after his death by his son Luiz (Lisbon, 1562), with a See also:
He was the most important Portuguese playwright and yet also the royal goldsmith, the master of the scales at the Mint and the author of the famous Belém Monstrance.
GilVicente created a rich gallery of characters and showed a great range of multiple expression.
His writing ranged from the poetic portrayal of the most banal and common everyday events to a refined sense of religiousness and to the abstract or ideological contents that he defended or satirised.
Portugal were no closer to safeguarding their future in international soccer on Friday after GilVicente maintained an appeal in a civil court over their relegation to the Portuguese second division.
The FPF relegated GilVicente from the Premier League after they broke rules concerning the registration of amateur Angolan player Mateus.
GilVicente then compounded the error by applying to the civil court to clear the player's eligibility, contravening more league and FIFA rules.
The League decision follows a legal row sparked by GilVicente's move to challenge in a civil court the suspension of Angolan player Mateus by Portuguese soccer authorities.
GilVicente's general assembly is expected to meet later on Thursday to decide whether to withdraw their appeal in the civil court.
GilVicente's decision to go to a civil court contravened League and FIFA rules.
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The Portuguese Soccer Federation (FPF) confirmed on Thursday that GilVicente would be replaced by Belenenses in the Premier League after they broke rules concerning the mid-season registration of amateur Angolan player Mateus.
GilVicente decided at a general assembly, which ran into the early hours of Friday, to stand by its appeal of the suspension of Mateus, which had disrupted the start of the Premier League season.
GilVicente president Antonio Fiuza told supporters during the assembly that he would consider taking Mateus' case to European courts.
It had already become the fashion for the leading Portuguese authors to write in Spanish as wll as in their native tongue, and this fashion was to continue throughout the Renaissance.
Many of Vicente's plays were composed for the purpose of celebrating religious and national festivals; others commemorate events in the life of the royal family; still others are quite popular in their tone and were intended by him to serve the ends of entertainment only.
of the Obras de GilVicente (Hamburg, 1834, and Lisbon, 1852), a good critical ed.
A dramatist of immense importance during early modern times in the Iberian Peninsula, GilVicente has been called the "inventor of modern Iberian theater": he was the first to write dramas in the main Iberian languages of the postmedieval period.
Although there were other dramatic poets before Vicente, their work was part of an oral tradition and disappeared with the advent and popularity of the printing press in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Most premiered as part of official celebrations or holidays before royalty or members of the Portuguese political elite; the plays were performed at court or in the palatial residences of upper-class citizens.
Vicente Carduco - St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata c.
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