Brazilian Parnassian poet born aboard a ship moored in Mangunça, municipality of Cururupu, MA, who with Olavo Bilac and Alberto de Oliveira, formed the trio of best known Parnassian poets from Brazil. Graduated from the Faculty of Law of São Paulo (1882), he was a prosecutor and judge in cities in Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais (1883-1897), when he went to Lisbon as secretary of the Brazilian legation.
He returned to Brazil (1899), settling in Niterói, RJ, and, the following year, in Rio de Janeiro. One of the founders of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, his most cited productions are First dreams (1879), Symphonies (1883), Verses and Versions (1887), Hallelujah (1891) and Poetry (1898), this one released in Lisbon.
He also published high-quality translations of poems by Byron, Victor Hugo, Lope de Vega, Heine, Catulle Mendès, Téophile Gautier, and others. She returned to Europe (1911) in search of health care, as she was suffering from uremia, but died in Paris. His remains were transferred to Brazil (1920) at the initiative of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
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