Miranda

Miranda, or SÁ DE MIRANDA, FRANCISCO DE (1495-1558), a Portuguese poet, founder of the school of which Camoens is the most brilliant representative. His earlier efforts were written in Spanish; his sonnets were the first written in Portuguese; his most characteristic works, his epistles in verse, are all in Portuguese but one. His works appeared at Lisbon in 1595: a better edition in 1614; the most scholarly one, by Vasancellos, at Halle in 1885.