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Jorge Ferreira de Vasconcelos

Portuguese writer

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Portuguese literature

  • João de Barros
    In Portuguese literature: The Italianate school of poetry and drama

    From the comic playwright Jorge Ferreira de Vasconcelos came another kind of comedy with Comédia Eufrosina (published 1555), written under the influence of the Spanish dialogue novel La Celestina (1499). This and his other plays, Comédia Ulissipo (published 1618) and Comédia Aulegrafia (published 1619), resembled La Celestina in form…

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