Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda
Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda (c. 1595–1644) was a Portuguese scholar, writer and playwright. She was born in Porto in about 1595 and died in 1644, and was celebrated in verse by both Manuel de Gallegos and Lope de Vega, suggesting that she was highly regarded as a poet by her male peers.
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Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda

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- Died
- 1644 · Lisbon.
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- Kingdom of Portugal
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- playwright · poet · writer
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- Portuguese · Latin · Spanish
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Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda (c. 1595–1644) was a Portuguese scholar, writer and playwright. She was born in Porto in about 1595 and died in 1644, and was celebrated in verse by both Manuel de Gallegos and Lope de Vega, suggesting that she was highly regarded as a poet by her male peers.
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Born at Porto in 1596, died in Lisbon in 1644.
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- 1.escritoras.com Literatura escrita por mujeres. Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda.
- 2.Gwyn Fox. Subtle Subversions: Reading Golden Age Sonnets by Iberian Women. 1. Juni 2008. 978-0-8132-1528-0.
- 3.Escritoras – Women Writers in Portugese before 1900. Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda.
- 4.Violantedo Ceo. Rimas varias.
- 5.Jose Simon Diaz. Siglos de Oro: Indice de Justas Poeticas. 1962.
- 6.Brooklyn Museum: Bernarda de la Cerda. brooklynmuseum.org.
- 7.Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda. Hespaña libertada. Parte Primera compuesta por Doña Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda, dirigida al rey catholico de las Hespañas don Philippe tercero deste nombre nuestro señor. 1618.
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