In the Portugal of the end of the 15th century and the entire ensuing hundred years, corresponding to the Portuguese Renaissance, the influence of the works, besides other Spanish writers, that of the poet Jorge Manrique, was very deep, especially, but not only, of the famous Stanzas to the death on his father, as this article seeks to highlight. Such trend was enhanced by the great prestige of the Spanish culture, the phenomenon of bilingualism that characterized the court and intellectual circles of that country thanks to the frequent and tight family relations between the two reigning houses, as well as, eventually, the ephemeral union of the two crowns. It pervaded every literary manifestation and was clearly felt in the production of the greatest Portuguese poets and playwrits. Nevertheless, Manrique's trace vanishes almost completely from the Portuguese letters following the recovery of the independence, which gave way to a long political and cultural divorce between the two Iberian nations.
