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MANUEL DE MELLO (? 1611–1666)  , Portuguese writer, a connexion on his father's side of the royal house of Braganza, was a native of Lisbon . He studied the Humanities at the Jesuit College of S . Antao, where he showed a precocious talent, and tradition says that at the age of fourteen he composed a poem in ottava rimy to celebrate the recovery of Bahia from the Dutch, while at seventeen he wrote a scientific work, Concordancias mathematicas . The death of his father, II of the latter . See John Cinnamus, History of John and Manuel (ed . 1836, Bonn) ; E . Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ed . Bury, London, 1896), v . 229 sqq., vi . 214 sqq . ; G . Finlay, History of Greece (ed..1877, Oxford), iii .

143–197; H. v . Kap-Herr,

Die abendlandische Politik Kaiser Manuels (Strassburg, 1881) . (M . O . B .