he seems to have studied music in his youth, and to have gone to spain in 1543 as chorister in the suite of the portuguese infanta maria, first wife of philip ii. in 1552 he went back to portugal in the suite of the infanta juana, wife of joão manuel, prince of portugal, and on the death of this prince in 1554 returned to spain. he is said to have served in the army, to have accompanied philip ii to england in 1555, and to have travelled in italy and the low countries; but it is certain that his poetical works were published at antwerp in 1554, and again in 1558.