Francisco Manuel de Melo

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Francisco Manuel de Melo


Born
in Lisbon, Portugal
November 23, 1608

Died
August 24, 1666

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Francisco Manuel de Melo (Lisbon, November 23, 1608 - Lisbon, August 24 or October 13, 1666) was a Portuguese writer, politician and military, also belonging to the Spanish literary, political and military history.
Historian, educator, moralist, play writer, poet and epistolographer, he was most representative of the Baroque peninsular literature. He devoted himself to poetry, theatre, history and epistolography. Having published about two dozen works during his life, he was also the author of other works published posthumously. He joined the Baroque style and themes with his own cosmopolitanism and gallant spirit, typical of the aristocracy from which he came. Among his most important works, we find the moralist text of the "Carta de Guia d
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Carta de guia de casados

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O Auto do Fidalgo Aprendiz

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Relógios Falantes

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Feira dos Anexins

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Guerra de Cataluña de Franc...

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Apólogos dialogais - VOLUME II

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Tratado da Ciência Cabala

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Pêndulo do amor e do crime

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