What is Viriato Trágico?
[[File: Nt-Viriato Viseu.jpg|thumb|right|Viriatus's monument in Viseu]] '''Viriato Trágico''' is a long [[poem]] by Portuguese poet [[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]] (1596-1656).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.arqnet.pt/dicionario/garciamascarenhasbraz.html |title=Garcia de Mascarenhas (Brás). |access-date=2016-11-28 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303210429/http://www.arqnet.pt/dicionario/garciamascarenhasbraz.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.lidiajorge.com/autores.php?autor=124 Brás Garcia Mascarenhas at Portal da Literatura.]{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ==Overview== Viriato Trágico is a heroic poem, one of the most important Portuguese poems of the 17th century. It consists of twenty books. It was first printed in 1699,<ref>[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027709462 Aubrey F. G. Bell, Portuguese literature, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1922, p. 259.]</ref> many years after author's death.<ref>[http://poeticia.blogspot.com/2008/11/livro-raro-viriato-trgico-em-poema-her.html Livro raro - Viriato trágico em poema heróico]</ref> == Form == The poem about Viriatus by Garcia de Mascarenhas is written in [[ottava rima]]<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/art/ottava-rima Ottava rima at Encyclopaedia Britannica.]</ref> (oitava rima in Portuguese).<ref>[http://www.dicionarioinformal.com.br/oitava-rima/ Oitava-rima.]</ref> This [[strophe]] was very popular in Portugal in 17th century. It was introduced into Portuguese literature by [[Francisco de Sá de Miranda]].<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-de-Sa-de-Miranda Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Portuguese author at Encyclopaedia Britannica.]</ref> After [[Luís de Camões]] used the strophe in [[The Lusiads]] all poets emloyed it in long works. The strophe consists of eight lines rhymed abababcc. The lines are composed of ten syllables each. : ''Canto um Pastor, Amores, e Armas canto,'' : ''Canto o Raio do monte, e da campanha,'' : ''Terror da Itália, e do