TORREZAÕ COELHO.
A doctor of canon law, and a member of the Inquisitorial college of Lisbon, named Simaõ Torrezaõ Coelho, vied with Barbosa Bacellar in this new modification of romantic poetry. His pictures of passion are, however, totally different from those of Bacellar. He imitated the perverted style of the Marinists and Gongorists, and followed the precepts of Faria e Sousa. He talks of “the just sensation of unjust love;”[287]—of the living feeling of a dead soul;[288] of “the memory that lives in the brass of the soul;”[289] and such like Marinisms and Gongorisms. His verses appear, however, to have been very popular.[290]