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Bernardim Ribeiro

Died in 1552

Bernardim Ribeiro was probably born between 1480 and 1490 in Torrão, in the Alentejo, according to his eclogues and a line by his friend Sá de Miranda. It is not known whether he is the Lisbon student of 1507 to 1511, appointed secretary in 1524. His poems entered Garcia de Resende's collection in 1516. A tradition, which recent criticism holds to be drawn from his work for lack of documents, says he was pensioned by the king in 1549 and died insane in 1552 in the All Saints Hospital in Lisbon; an eclogue by Sá de Miranda, written before 1544, already speaks of him as dead.

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