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António Ferreira

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António Ferreira , c.1528–69, Portuguese dramatist and poet. Ferreira served as a privy councillor and a magistrate. Influenced by the Italian Renaissance, he wrote his great play Inés de Castro (c.1557), employing Italian meters and classical form. The only Renaissance tragedy in Portuguese, it was translated into English in 1697. Ferreira also wrote comedies, sonnets, and odes. His writing is generally grave and elevated and displays his classical learning. He was important in the movement to free Portuguese literature and language from Spanish influence.

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Ferreira, António (1528–69), Portuguese dramatist, author of the finest play of the Portuguese Renaissance and also the first to combine classical models with native material, the Tragédia de Dona Inêz de Castro (pub. 1587), which tells of the murder in 1355 of the mistress of Pedro, eldest son of Alfonso IV, a subject which has inspired many other dramatists, including Henri de Montherlant in La Reine morte (1942). Ferreira also wrote two moral but witty comedies, O Cioso and Bristo (pub. 1622), called after their chief characters.

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