António Gomes Leal
António Gomes Leal was a Portuguese poet.[1]
António Duarte Gomes Leal | |
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| Born | 6 June 1848 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Died | 29 January 1921 (aged 72) |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Genre | Romance, religion |
| Subject | Women, death, travel, misery |
Life and work
Leal was born in Rossio, part of Lisbon. He was the son of João António Gomes Leal (d. 1876), a customs officer, and Henrietta Fernandina Monteiro Alves Cabral Leal.
Leal studied literature, but did not complete his studies and became a notary clerk of Lisbon. During his youth he took the pose of a poet interested in Bohemianism and Satanism, but with the death of his mother in 1910, he fell into poverty and converted to Catholicism.[2]
In 1933 the Lisbon City Council honored the poet by naming a street after him in the Bairro do Arco do Cego, Areeiro parish.
References
- Teresa Soares Correia. "Gomes Leal". Centro Virtual Camões (in Portuguese). Instituto Camões. Retrieved 2012-02-08.
- {Encyclopedia Larrousse (vol. 11)} ISBN 978-972-759-931-8
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