Francisco Manuel de Mello (23 November 1608 – 24 August 1666),

was a Portuguese writer.​

He returned home in 1659 because he is an exile in Brazil, and from then until 1663 we find him on and off in Lisbon, frequenting the celebrated Academia dos Generosos, of which he was five times elected president. In the last year he proceeded to Parma and Rome, by way of England, and France, and Afonso VI of Portugal charged him to negotiate with the Curia about the provision of bishops for Portuguese sees and to report on suitable marriages for the king and his brother. During his stay in Rome he published his Obras morales, dedicated to Queen Catherine, wife of Charles II of England, and his Cartas familiares. On his way back to Portugal he printed his Obras Métricas at Lyon in May 1665, and he died in Lisbon the following year.