Lisbon-born nostalgic poet and critic of Portuguese society, considered the last representative of neoclassicism archaic in Portugal, in whose writings he attacked the clergy and aristocracy, as well as fighting superstition and backwardness. reigning. Of modest origin, he managed to be ordained a priest (1754), studied the classics and was an unconditional admirer of Horace, later acquiring a liberal and encyclopedist formation. An opponent of Arcadia Lusitana, he headed the Ribeira das Naus group and was denounced to the Holy Office as a user of reading French rationalist books banned by the Inquisition.
He took refuge in Paris (1778), where he made distinguished friends, especially Lamartine, who dedicated a poem to him and called it Divino Manuel. He died in Paris, the French capital, poor and already quite old, after publishing his Complete Works (1817-1819), with his famous Arcadian pseudonym, which he received from D. Leonor de Almeida, Marquesa de Alorna, to whom he taught Latin when she was confined in the Convento de Chelas and with whose sister Maria he fell in love with Platonically. These poems of his were published in Paris in eleven volumes (1817-1819), followed by a second edition in Lisbon of twenty-two volumes (1836-1840). In addition to being a poet, he was a translator, translating the Martyrs of Chateaubriand, the Fables of Lafontaine and Púnica of Silio Itálico into Portuguese.
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