Famous Portuguese anticlerical poet born in Freixo-de-Espada-à-Cinta, Trás-os-Montes, Portugal, of solid French influence, and which in its satires had caricature effects that intensified the rhetoric of its verses. From a wealthy family and severely Catholic, he attended the Faculty of Theology (1866-1868) which he abandoned to go to the University of Coimbra, where he graduated in Law (1868-1873) and began to frequent environments of intellectuals and politicians. He came into contact with the intellectuals of the Cenáculo and collaborated in the magazine Lanterna Mágica (1875).
His first publication was Mysticae nuptiae (1866), followed by The Death of D. João (1874) and the collection of poems The muse on vacation (1879). He was secretary of the governments of Angra and Viana, he joined the monarchic Progressive Party, which was in the opposition (1879), he was elected deputy for the circle of Quelimane, Mozambique (1880) and represented the country in Bern. He joined the group Vencidos da Vida (1888), of which Eça de Queirós and Oliveira Martins belonged, and continued to write until he retired to his properties in the Douro (1891), where he evolved into mysticism, characterized by piety towards the humble.
He died in Lisbon, leaving behind as his best-known work, The Old Age of the Eternal Father (1875), an anticlerical satire with scathing humor and a caricaturist aspect. The novels Prosas Dispersas (1921) and Horas de Combate (1924) and poetic works such as Two Pages of Fourteen Years (1864), Voices without Echo (1867), Baptism of Love (1868), The Muse on Vacation (1879), Finis Patriae (1880), The Simples (1892), Fatherland (1896), Prayer to Bread (1903), Prayer to Light (1904) and Scattered Poetry (1920). After his death, Hours of Combat (1924) appeared, bringing together his political speeches.
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