Portuguese literature

The beginnings of Portuguese literature are to be found in medieval Galician-Portuguese poetry, originally developed in Galicia and northern Portugal. The Golden Age is considered to have been the Renaissancewperiod,ith the writings of Gil Vicente, Bernardim Ribeiro, Sá de Miranda and especially the great epic poet Luís de Camões, author of national and epic poem Os Lusíadas. The seventeenth century was marked by the introduction of the Baroque in Portugal and is generally regarded as the century of literary decadence, despite the existence of writers like Father António Vieira, Padre Manuel Bernardes and Francisco Rodrigues Lobo.