Menéndez Pelayo, la literatura portuguesa y los críticos portugueses

The topic of Don Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo's relations with Portugal is far from being unprecedented, since it has been studied by, in addition to Fidelino de Figueiredo, probably the Portuguese personality who is closest to being considered a disciple of Don Marcelino, also a former professor of Spanish at the University of Coimbra, José María Viqueira, and Eduardo Mayone Dias, retired professor at the University of California. Among other, smaller works, José María Viqueira is the author of a 343-page essay, titled Menéndez Pelayo and Portugal, while Eduardo Mayone Dias's study, Menéndez Pelayo e a literature portuguese, remains at 156 pages. Curiously, the two texts are offprints of consecutive issues of the magazine Biblos, edited by the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra, published respectively in 1974 and 1975, although they present much earlier edition dates on the covers (1967 and 1968).