SA DE MIRANDA, FRANCISCO DE

1495-1558), Portug. poet. After spending four ht back Ital. modes—Petrarch’s 1527 produced the first Portug. prose play, the Estrangeiros, thus replacing the popular autos; this was followed by several books of poems and his second, the Vilhalpandos, 1538. Other poems spsaniad include Oa Fabula ey de ite Mondego (in Spanish), Alezio, The Cartas, and Basto. (c. 1184-1292), most famous of Persian poets; b. Shiraz. His most famous book is the Gulistan, a medley in prose and] yerse. His ‘Bostan’ or Tree ranks next—a poem religious in senti-|like ment. The Pend-Nameh is a didactic] work. frontier HEAD. on Brahmaputra, Lak-| district, A am, India. Pop. himpur 4,500.