The correspondence between António Ferreira and Francisco de Sá de Miranda

Abstract

This paper means to rescue the dialogue implicit in the exchance of letters in lines, miming the art of talking, in the elegiac correspondence between the two Portuguese renaissance poets, António Ferreira and Francisco de Sá de Miranda, in 1553, about the death of the latter’s oldest son, Gonçalo Mendes de Sá, in the late crusade on “Monte de Condessa”, at the Morocco, where died the best of the Iberian aristocracy.

Keywords

• renascimento português
• correspondência em versos
• elegia
• mecenato
• espírito cruzadista