Francisco Manuel de Mello (23 November 160824 August 1666), was a Portuguese writer.
Overview
Francisco Manuel de Mello (23 November 160824 August 1666), was a Portuguese writer.
Youth
De Mello, a connection on his father's side of the royal house of Braganza, was a native of Lisbon. He studied the humanities at the Jesuit College of St. Antão, where he showed a precocious talent, and tradition says that at the age of fourteen he composed a poem in ottava rima to celebrate the recovery of Bahia from the Dutch, while at seventeen he wrote a scientific work, Concordancias mathematicas.
Military career
