Comparing two editions of epigrammatic poetry published by the Portuguese humanist Antônio de Gouveia, in Lyon, France, in 1539 and 1540, it is possible to note the stylistic criteria of composition, based on characteristic resources of Classical Latin and on traditional elements of Ancient Literature, observing especially the imitation of the pattern of poets as Martial, Ovid and, above all, Virgil, whose infl...