Francisco de Sá de Miranda (28 August 1481 – 17 May 1558; ) was a Portuguese poet of the Renaissance.
Life
Sá de Miranda was born in Coimbra, the son of a canon Gonçalo Mendes de Sá belonging to the ancient and noble family of Sá and Inês de Melo.
Work
Like many Portuguese writers of his time, Sá de Miranda often wrote in Castilian He introduced the sonnet,
Apart from poems, Sá de Miranda wrote two theatrical comedies following classical forms: Estrangeiros, the first Portugues prose comedy (staged to great success in Coimbra in 1528 and published in 1559) and Vilhalpandos (written around 1530 and published in 1560). His tragedy Cleópatra has only survived in fragments.
Sá de Miranda also left several letters in verse, addressed to people like King John III and his brother Mem de Sá.
References
Bibliography
- Lusitania illustrata. Notices on the history, antiquities, literature &c, by John Adamson, Newcastle on Tyne 1842.
- Dreams of Waking: An Anthology of Iberian Lyric Poetry 1400-1700. Edited and Translated by Vincent Barletta, Mark L. Bajus, Cici Malik, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2013.
External links
- Poems by Francisco de Sá de Miranda at Portuguese Wikisource.
- Francisco de Sá de Miranda's Versos portuguêses at Archive.org.