The seventeenth century was marked by the introduction of the Baroque in Portugal and is generally regarded as the century of literary decadence, despite the existence of writers like Father António Vieira, Padre Manuel Bernardes and Francisco Rodrigues Lobo.
O século XVII caracterizouse pola introdución do barroco en Portugal, sendo considerado en xeral como un século de decadencia literaria a pesar da existencia de escritores como António Vieira, Manuel Bernardes e Francisco Rodrigues Lobo.