Francisco de Sá de Miranda

Francisco de Sá de Miranda was born in Coimbra on 28 August 1481, the son of a canon, Gonçalo Mendes de Sá, and of Inês de Melo. A doctor of law of the University of Lisbon, he frequented the court, where he became friends with Bernardim Ribeiro, then lived in Italy from 1521 to 1526, from Milan and Venice to Naples and Sicily. He brought back the sonnet, the eclogue and the ten-syllable line. Married around 1530 to Briolanja de Azevedo, he retired to his lands in the Minho, lost his eldest son in Morocco in 1553 and died in 1558; his half-brother Mem de Sá governed Brazil.

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• TheatreOs EstrangeirosFrancisco de Sá de Miranda · 1528not translated into EnglishLiterature