Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo

Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo wrote some short poems, for example sonnets,^[4] but is known for long poems. He is regarded as an important successor of Luis de Camões.^[5][6][7] His first big work is Discurso sobre a Vida e Morte de Santa Isabel Rainha de Portugal^[8] which was published in Lisbon 1596 under the title Discurso sobre a Vida e Morte de Santa Isabel Rainha de Portugal e Outras Várias Rimas.^[9] The work that is always connected with the name of Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo is a long epic poem Afonso Africano that was published in 1611. It narrates about Portuguese military expedition to Morocco led by king Afonso V who was later called the African for his great deeds. This war was seen and described as a modern crusade.^[10]

Both mentioned poems are written in ottava rima, a stanza of eight lines with rhyme scheme abababcc^[11] (in Portuguese oitava-rima).^[12]

• Extracts from Discurso sobre a Vida e Morte de Santa Isabel Rainha de Portugal and Afonso Africano at projecto vercial. Archived 2017-03-01 at the Wayback Machine