Brazilian intellectual born in Recife, PE, builder of and one of the greatest poetic works of modern Brazilian literature. His parents were the engineer Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira and Francelina Ribeiro de Sousa Bandeira, since he was 10 years old, he has lived in the Rio de Janeiro, where he attended secondary school (1897-1902) at the Externato do Ginásio Nacional, now Colégio Pedro II, and graduated in letters.
He enrolled in engineering at the Escola Politécnica de São Paulo (1903) but dropped out of the course the following year, victim of tuberculosis. In search of a cure, he visited Campanha, Minas Gerais, Teresópolis and Petrópolis, State of Rio de Janeiro, and finally Clavadel, Switzerland (1913-1914). Curado started dedicating himself to plastic arts criticism, literary and music criticism for several newspapers and magazines. In this activity he collaborated (1925) in the Modernist Month section of the newspaper A Noite, in the magazine A Idéia Ilustrada and in the musical magazine for the Diário Nacional, in São Paulo, he wrote film critic for Diário da Noite, in Rio de Janeiro, and for A Provincia, in Recife (1930-1931), and he was a critic of fine arts in A Manhã, in Rio de Janeiro (1941).
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He began writing chronicles for Jornal do Brasil (1955) and later wrote weekly chronicles for the program Quadrante, on Rádio Ministry of Education (1961-1963) and for the programs Voices of the City and Great poets of Brazil, on Rádio Roquette-Pinto (1963-1964). He published books of poems such as Poetry (1924), Chosen Poetry (1937), Complete Poetry (1940), Translated Poems (1945), Poetic Works (1956) and Estrela da Tarter (1960).
He also wrote in prose works on poets, biographies, literary essays, literary histories, etc., as well as anthologies such as Anthology of poets Brazilians of the Romantic phase (1937), Anthology of Brazilian poets of the Parnassian phase (1938) and Anthology of contemporary leap Brazilian poets (1946). On August 29, 1940, he was elected to chair number 24 at the Academia Brasileira de Letras, in succession to Luís Guimarães Filho, and died in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, at the age of 82.
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