Cristóvão Falcão

Cristovão Falcão as Cristovão de Sousa known (c. 1515 or 1518 in Portalegre, Portugal, † 1553 or 1557) was a Portuguese poet of the Renaissance.

Life

Cristovão Falcão was born in Portalegre, son of João Falcão, the governor of El Mina, Ghana. He was of noble birth. He traveled to Italy and spent five years in prison. Between 1545 and 1547 he was governor of Arguin on the coast of Africa. In 1553 he married. He died in 1553-1557, the exact place of death is not known.

Work

His most important work, the Elogensammlung " Crisfal ", published 1543-1546 and is in addition to the eulogies of Bernardim Ribeiro of the most beautiful Portuguese Renaissance poems. His book is transferred to Ferrara in 1554 into Italian and in 1559 even printed in Cologne in German.

• Crisfal, Eclogas, 1543 ate 1546.