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Manuel do Valle de Moura

1564–1650

A Portuguese scholar-cleric of the late Renaissance, he moved between theology, law, and literary wit. He is remembered both for a Latin treatise on charms and incantations and for helping write a playful parody of Camões with fellow students in Évora.

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Paródia ao primeiro canto dos Lusíadas de Camões por quatro estudantes de Évora em 1589

Paródia ao primeiro canto dos Lusíadas de Camões por quatro estudantes de Évora em 1589

by Manuel Luiz Freire, Manuel do Valle de Moura, active 1589-1619 Bartolomeu Varela, active 1608 Luís Mendes de Vasconcelos

About the author

Born in Arraiolos and dying in Évora on May 18, 1650, Manuel do Vale de Moura was educated deeply in both theology and law. Sources describe him as a doctor of theology from the University of Évora and trained in law at the University of Coimbra.

He held several religious and intellectual roles: abbot of Santa Cristina de Barroso, tutor to D. Alexandre, son of the Duke of Bragança, and deputy of the Inquisition in Évora. A surviving record of his printed work points to De incantationibus seu ensalmis, a Latin treatise concerned with charms or incantations.

He is also linked to a very different kind of writing: the Paródia ao primeiro canto dos Lusíadas de Camões, a humorous collaborative piece by students in Évora in 1589. Later bibliographic records list him among its authors, showing a figure who belonged both to learned religious culture and to the playful literary world of his student years.