Youth
De Mello, a connection 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 St. Antão, where he showed a precocious talent, and tradition says that at the age of fourteen he composed a poem in ottava rima to celebrate the recovery of Bahia from the Dutch, while at seventeen he wrote a scientific work, Concordancias mathematicas.
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