Epitaffi poetici: Gil Vicente e Soror Violante do Céu

Poetic epitaphs : Gil Vicente and Soror Violante do Céu · The paper discusses two examples of poetic texts that take the shape of the funeral epitaph. The first is the composition that concludes Gil Vicente’s Copilaçam de todalas obras, while the second is a sonnet by the seventeenth-century poetess Soror Violante do Céu. In both it is the dead man lying in the mound who addresses the living and urges him to remember the brevity of earthly existence, recognizing his future condition in the present state of the deceased.