the dignity of a judge, he never gave his real talents a chance to display themselves. His Anacreontic odes, dithyrambs and idylls earned the admiration of contemporaries, but his Pindaric odes lack fire, his sonnets are weak, and his idylls have neither the truth nor the simplicity of Quita's work. As a rule Diniz's versification is weak and his verses lack harmony, though the diction is beyond cavil. Published works His poems were published in 6 vols. (Lisbon, 1807–1817). The best edition of Hyssope, to which Diniz owes his fame, is that of J. R. Coelho (Lisbon, 1879), with an exhaustive introductory study on his life and writings. A French prose version of the poem by Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie has gone through two editions (Paris, 1828 and 1867), and English translations of selections have been printed in the Foreign Quarterly Review, and in the Manchester Quarterly (April 1896). See also Dr Teófilo Braga, A. Arcadia Lusitana (Oporto, 1899). References External links 1731 births 1799 deaths 18th-century Portuguese poets Portuguese male poets University of Coimbra alumni 18th-century Portuguese people People from Lisbon 18th-century male writers