What is Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo?
'''Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo''' (or Quebedo, 16th/17th century) was a Portuguese poet.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/vercial/quevedo.htm |title=Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo e Castelo Branco at projecto vercial. |access-date=2016-11-07 |archive-date=2017-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301213807/http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/vercial/quevedo.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Little is known about his personal life. He studied law at the University of [[Coimbra]]. He wrote lyrical poems, for example [[sonnet]]s,<ref>[https://archive.org/details/sonetistasportug00carduoft 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.]</ref> 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 (epic poem)|Afonso Africano]], an epic poem in [[ottava rima]] (1611).<ref>[http://www.portaldaliteratura.com/autores.php?autor=120 Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo e Castelo Branco at Portal da Literatura.]</ref> == References == <references/> == Other websites == * [http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/vercial/quevedo.htm Fragments of Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo's poems at Projecto Vercial.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301213807/http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/vercial/quevedo.htm |date=2017-03-01 }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mouzinho de Quevedo, Vasco Mouzinho}} [[Category:16th-century births]] [[Category:17th-century deaths]] [[Category:Portuguese poets]]