António Dinis da Cruz e Silva

In 1756 António Dinis da Cruz e Silva and others established the Arcádia Lusitana, its first aim being the uprooting of Gongorism, a style studded with Baroque conceits and Spanish influence in general. Cruz e Silva’s mock-heroic poem O Hissope (1768), inspired by the French poet Nicolas…

…ecclesiastical historian Manuel do Cenáculo; António Ribeiro dos Santos, a scientist; João Pedro Ribeiro, a historian; and the critics Francisco Alexandre Lobo and Fortunato de São Boaventura.