Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo

Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo (or Quebedo, 16th/17th century) was a Portuguese poet. Little is known about his personal life. He studied law at the University of Coimbra. He wrote lyrical poems, for example sonnets,See: Nuno Catharino Cardoso, Sonetistas portugueses e luso-brasileiros; antologia contendo dados biográficos e bibliográficos ácêrca de cento e oitenta e nove poetas. 1495 á novissima geração, Lisboa 1918, p. 20. but is best known fo his epic works. One of them is Discurso sobre a Vida e Morte de Santa Isabel Rainha de Portugal that was published in Lisbon in 1596. The greatest work by the poet is Afonso Africano, an epic poem in ottava rima (1611).Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo e Castelo Branco at Portal da Literatura.

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 Fragments of Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo's poems at Projecto Vercial. 

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