Note 315 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80]
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According to Dr. Theophilo Braga, he was born in 1515; married in 1529 Maria Brandão (aged eleven); was profoundly influenced by Ribeiro’s Trovas de dous pastores (1536) but did not plagiarize it in the Trovas de Crisfal (1536-41), similar passages being due to the situação quasi similar (i.e. quasi identica) of the two friends; went to Italy on a diplomatic mission in 1541; spent the year 1543 in Rome and returned to Portugal in the winter of 1543-4; was factor of the fortress of Arguim from 1545 to 1548; and died in 1577.