Epic poet who endeavoured with little success, to follow in the path opened by Luís Camôes great epic Lusíadas.
He was of the same noble family as the explorer Gaspar Côrte-Real, the discoverer of Newfounland and took part in military actions on land and at sea. Besides being a poet and soldier he had some gift for painting; one of his pictures is preserved in the church of S. Antâo in Évora.
He produced three epic poems:
- Sucesso do segundo cérco de Dio (1574; "The Winning of the Second Siege of Dio"), on the historic siege of that Indian island-fortress.
- The Austríada (1578), in Spanish, on the victory od Don John of Austria at Lepanto.
- O Naufrágio de Sousa de Sepúlveda (1594; "The Shipwreck of Sousa of Sepúlveda).
All are long, discursive and prosaic and are of slight literary value.
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