Curated category
16th-century Portuguese male writers
- António GalvãoAntónio Galvão died in a hospital in Lisbon in 1557, buried without ceremony, having spent his final years in poverty and anonymity waiting for a pension…
- Fernão Lopes de CastanhedaFernão Lopes de Castanheda was born around 1500 in Santarém, Portugal, and spent a decade on the far side of the world gathering the raw material for one of…
- Gaspar CorreiaGaspar Correia arrived in Portuguese India around 1512-14 as a soldier, carrying little more than ambition and a sharp eye for the world around him.
- João de BarrosJoão de Barros earned the nickname "the Portuguese Livy" in his own lifetime, and the comparison to Rome's greatest historian was not given lightly.
- Gil VicenteThe year 1465 stands as the commonly accepted date for Gil Vicente's birth, though scholars have argued fiercely over this number for centuries.
- Luís de CamõesLuís de Camões set sail from Lisbon on Palm Sunday, the 24th of March 1553, carrying nothing but his soldier's pay and the beginnings of a poem.
- Damião de GóisOn the 2nd of February 1502, Damião de Góis entered a world that would shape his entire existence. He was born in Alenquer, Portugal, to Rui Dias de Góis and…
- Fernão Mendes PintoFernão Mendes Pinto left Lisbon on the 11th of March 1537 on a journey that would take him to the bottom of a slave market in Mocha, onto the Great Wall of…
- Francisco de HolandaFrancisco de Holanda was born in Lisbon around 1517, the son of a royal illuminator, and he would grow up to write the first treatise on painting ever…
- Pedro NunesPedro Nunes was born in Alcácer do Sal, Portugal, in 1502, and by the time he died in Coimbra on the 11th of August 1578, he had reshaped how human beings…
- João de CastroJoão de Castro died on the 6th of June 1548 in the arms of his friend, Saint Francis Xavier, thousands of miles from the Sintra Mountains he had asked to…