Grandes Figuras Portuguesas #09 Gil Vicente

Features

Location	Portugal
Issuing entity	Diário de Notícias
Type	Collection medallions
Composition	Silver plated bronze
Weight	9.1 g
Diameter	30.22 mm
Thickness	1.92 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Number	N# 66356

Commemorative issue

Gil Vicente

Series: Grandes Figuras Portuguesas

Obverse

Portrait and name.

Script: Latin

Lettering: GIL VICENTE

Reverse

Coat of arms and legend.

Script: Latin

Lettering: GRANDES FIGURAS PORTUGUESAS

Translation: Great Portuguese Figures

Edge

Reeded

Comments

Gil Vicente (Portuguese: c.1465 – c. 1536), called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plautus," often referred to as the "Father of Portuguese drama" and as one of Western literature's greatest playwrights. Vicente worked in Portuguese as much as he worked in Spanish and is thus, with Juan del Encina, considered joint-father of Spanish drama.

Vicente was attached to the courts of the Portuguese kings Manuel I and John III. He rose to prominence as a playwright largely on account of the influence of Queen Dowager Leonor, who noticed him as he participated in court dramas and subsequently commissioned him to write his first theatrical work.
Wikipedia

Part of a collection of 60 medals issued by the newspaper Diário de Noticias in a campaign to increase sales.

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