O touro e a bigorna: quatro epigramas de Cataldo

Abstract

Four epigrams reflecting both the humanisfs preoccupation with the education of Theodosius, the little heir of the Bragança ducal family, and with his own health. He is now gout ridden and, very far from the once aggressive buli, he feels reduced to the situation of the anvil vvhich cannot return the blows when beaten. Notice that incus (anvil), in Portuguese bigorna (from Latin bicornua),may allude to the touro (lat. taurus), buli.