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Melodious verses relieve the dullness of the pastoral romances of Rodriguez Lobo, while his " Corte na Aldea " is a book of varied interest in elegant prose.

The versatile D. Francisco Manuel de Mello, in addition to his sonnets on moral subjects, wrote pleasing imitations of popular romances, but is at his best in a reasoned but vehement " Memorial to John IV ", in the witty " Apologos Dialogaes ", and in the homely philosophy of the " Carta de Guia de Casados, prose classics.

Other poets of the period are Soror Violante do Ceo, and Frei Jeronymo Vahia, convinced Gongorists, Frei Bernardo de Brito with the " Sylvia de Lizardo ", and the satirists, D. Thomas de Noronha and Antonio Serrão de Castro.