Violante do Céu (1601–1693)
Violante do Céu (1601–1693)
Portuguese poet. Name variations: Violante do Ceo; Soror Violante do Ceu; Violante Montesino. Born Violante Montesino in 1601; died 1693.
Major poet of Baroque period, considered a proponent of conceptismo because of intellectual density of work; took Dominican vows (1630) and often wrote anonymously because of frank treatment of love in poems; works include Rimas Várias (1646) and Parnaso Lusitano de Divinos e Humanos Versos (1733); poems also appear in Fênix Renascida (1716–28).
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