Diogo Bernardes
Diogo Bernardes Pimenta (* around 1530 in Ponte da Barca , Portugal ; † around 1595 or 1605 ), was an important Portuguese poet of the Renaissance .
life and work
Much data from the poet's life are not certain, for example Bernardes is said to have been born around 1530 in Ponte da Barca, a small town in the Viana do Castelo district . He is said to have studied in Braga , to have been valet to King Sebastian I of Portugal and to have participated in the battle of Alcácer-Quibir in Morocco in 1578 . Bernardes is said to have lived in Lisbon and was in contact with the poets Francisco de Sá de Miranda and António Ferreira .
His work, which consists primarily of sonnets , epistles , canzons , idylls and elegies , is strongly influenced by Francesco Petrarca . He was also one of the most important representatives of bucolic poetry ( shepherd poetry ) in Portugal in the 16th century.
His best-known poems are Varias Rimas ao Bom Jesus ea virgem gloriosa sua mae ea santos particulares (German: various rhymes about the good Jesus and the glorious virgin, his mother and various saints) from 1594 as well as O Lima and Rimas Varias, Flores do Lima from 1596.
literature
- Jean-Claude Polet, Claude Pichois: Patrimoine littéraire européen: anthologie en langue française , De Boeck Université, 1995, pages 717–718, ISBN 2-8041-2079-1
Individual evidence
- ^ Biblioteca Nacional Digital - Na Off. de Miguel Rodrigues: Rimas varias, flores do Lima / compostas por Diogo Bernardes , Lisboa, 1770. (Microfiche available as PDF ; 6.7 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bernardes, Diogo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pimenta, Diogo Bernardes (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese lyric poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1530 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ponte da Barca , Portugal |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1595 or 1605 |