Violante do Ceo

Soror Violante do Céu ( Violante from heaven ), OP, civil Violante Montesino, (* 1601 in Lisbon, Portugal, † 1693 same place ) was a Portuguese nun and poet. It is considered a great female voice of the Portuguese Baroque poetry and at the same time also the spiritual poetry of their country.

Life and work

Violante Montesino - so her real name - wrote at the age of 17 years a comedy during a visit of Spain's King Philip III. in Lisbon. 1630 she joined the Order of the Dominicans at, in the Convention Nossa Senhora do Rosario in Lisbon and henceforth led a monastic and spiritual life.

Soror ( Sister ) Violante wrote an enormous amount of poetry that was in 1630, first printed in Rouen, France as an independent poetry. So it was one of the great spiritual poets in Portugal next Agostinho da Cruz and others. Also for the age of the Baroque are their sonnets of importance. Other verses appeared in anthologies such as the " Parnasso Literatura de Divinos e versos humans ", or posthumously in 1733 in " Decima Musa de Fenix ​​dos engenho Lusitano".

She died at an old age in 1693 in Lisbon.

Work

• Rimas Varias, 1646, printed in Rouen.

Swell

• Www.infopedia.pt/ $ sorror - violante -do- ceu, 2
• Www.revistamododeusar.blogspot.de/2009/03/sorror-violante

• Poetry
• Author
• Dominican brother
• Person ( Lisbon )
• Portuguese
• Literature ( Portuguese)
• Born in 1601
• Died in 1693
• Woman