Tomás António Gonzaga Writer

Tomás António Gonzaga (11 August 1744 – c. 1810) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian poet. One of the most famous Neoclassic colonial Brazilian writers, he was also the ouvidor and the ombudsman of the city of Ouro Preto (formerly "Vila Rica"), as well as the desembargador of the appeal court in Bahia. He wrote under the pen name Dirceu.He is patron of the 37th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

Personal facts

Tomás António Gonzaga
Alias (AKA)Dirceu
PseudonymDirceu
Birth dateAugust 11, 1744
Birth place
Porto , Miragaia (Porto)
Nationality
Portuguese people
Date of deathJanuary 01, 1810
Place of death
Portuguese Mozambique , Island of Mozambique
Education
University of Coimbra

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Writer

influenced by
Age of Enlightenment
Petrarch
Anacreon
Theocritus
movement
Neoclassicism
notable work
Cartas Chilenas
Marília de Dirceu

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Tomás António Gonzaga on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.academia.org.br/abl/cgi/cgilua.exe/sys/start.htm?sid=332