Fénix renascida

…in the five volumes of Fénix renascida (1716–28; “Phoenix Reborn”), which anthologizes the poetry of the preceding century and shows the pervasiveness of Gongorism (gongorismo; see also culteranismo) in Portuguese poetry. This taste for the construction of literary enigmas, puzzles, labyrinths, and visual designs, all presented in an esoteric, Latinate…