Pierre de Ronsard
"Pires de Marmelada" (1869) is an improvisation of no great merit. The four theatrical pieces -- "Amemos o nosso próximo", "Ser apresentado", "Ensaio de Casamento", and "A viúva inconsolável"—are prose translations from Méry, cleverly done, but not worth the doing. "Horácio e Lydia" (1872), a translation from Pierre de Ronsard, is a good example of artifice in manipulating that dangerously monotonous measure, the Portuguese couplet.