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Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo (c. 1570-c. 1619) was a Portuguese poet, known for his epic poems.

Biography

Although Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo e Castelo Branco is regarded as one of greatest Portuguese poets, very little is known about his personal life. He was born around 1570 and died around 1619. He studied law at the University of Coimbra. He wrote both lyrical poetry and epic poems.

Works

Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo wrote some short poems, for example sonnets, but is known for long poems. He is regarded as an important successor of Luis de Camões. His first big work is Discurso sobre a Vida e Morte de Santa Isabel Rainha de Portugal which was published in Lisbon 1596 under the title Discurso sobre a Vida e Morte de Santa Isabel Rainha de Portugal e Outras Várias Rimas. The work that is always connected with the name of Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo is a long epic poem Afonso Africano that was published in 1611. It narrates about Portuguese military expedition to Morocco led by king Afonso V who was later called the African for his great deeds. This war was seen and described as a modern crusade.

Both mentioned poems are written in ottava rima, a stanza of eight lines with rhyme scheme abababcc (in Portuguese oitava-rima).

References

1. Lopes), Mike (Aka Sérgio. "DocbWeb® - Pesquisa".
2. http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/vercial/quevedo.htm Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo e Castelo Branco at Projecto Vercial.
3. Cristina Azevedo Tavares, A escultura do Chiado da Lisboa romântica à Lisboa dos nossos dias.
4. Cardoso, Nuno Catharino (1 January 1918). "Sonetistas portugueses e luso-brasileiros; antologia contendo dados biográficos e bibliográficos ácêrca de cento e oitenta e nove poetas. 1495 á novissima geração". Lisboa Edição e Propriedade do Auctor – via Internet Archive.
5. Regina Zilberman, O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis - História e não-História.
6. Cushman, Stephen; Cavanagh, Clare; Ramazani, Jahan; Rouzer, Paul (26 August 2012). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1400841424 – via Google Books.
7. Łukaszyk, Ewa (1 January 2007). Archipelagi wyobraźni: z dziejów toposu wyspy w kręgu literatur romańskich. Wydawnictwo UJ. ISBN 9788323322993 – via Google Books.
8. Maria Lucília Pires, O Discurso sobre a vida e morte de Santa Isabel rainha de Portugal de Vasco Mouzinho de Castelbranco (in Portugues).
9. "Projecto Vercial".
10. Ewa Łukaszyk, Wyprawa zamorska jako zdrada i wyzwolenie w doświadczeniach iberyjskich między V a XVII wiekiem (in Polish).
11. "ottava rima - poetic form".
12. "Significado de "oitava-rima"".

External links

• Extracts from Discurso sobre a Vida e Morte de Santa Isabel Rainha de Portugal and Afonso Africano at projecto vercial.

• 16th-century births
• 17th-century deaths
• 16th-century Portuguese poets
• 16th-century male writers
• 17th-century Portuguese poets
• Portuguese male poets
• University of Coimbra alumni
• 17th-century male writers