Décio Carneiro

Very little biographical information about this author was confirmed in the sources reviewed, beyond the dates 1868–1939 and the attribution of Sá de Miranda e a sua Obra to Décio Carneiro.

That surviving book presents him as a literary critic and essayist interested in Portuguese letters, especially the life and writing of Francisco de Sá de Miranda, one of the key figures of the Portuguese Renaissance. The work is less a casual introduction than a sustained appreciation of Sá de Miranda's place in literary history, suggesting an author drawn to scholarship as much as storytelling.

Because reliable personal details were scarce, it is safest to remember him through the book that remains accessible to modern readers: a thoughtful study that helped keep an important earlier poet in view for later generations.