This type of novel was best personified in the 1508 version of João de Lobeira's Amadis de Gaula by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, the 1541 Cronica do famoso e muito esforçado cavalleiro Palmeirim d´Inglaterra by Francisco de Moraes, and the 1522 Crónica do Imperador Clarimundo, by João de Barros.
Renaissance | Portuguese language | Portuguese people | Renaissance music | Portuguese India | Harlem Renaissance | Brazilian Portuguese | Renaissance architecture | Portuguese Angola | Italian Renaissance | Portuguese Empire | Portuguese Navy | Portuguese Mozambique | Portuguese Air Force | renaissance | Portuguese Army | Renaissance (band) | Portuguese Colonial War | Portuguese Macau | Portuguese cuisine | French Renaissance | English Renaissance theatre | English Renaissance | Spanish and Portuguese Jews | Sinhalese–Portuguese War | Renaissance (film) | Renaissance fair | Portuguese poetry | Portuguese Inquisition | Portuguese Guinea |
Though some of his works were later suppressed by the Portuguese Inquisition, causing his fame to wane, he is now recognised as one of the principal figures of the Portuguese Renaissance.