biography
| name: |
Castilho, Antonio Feliciano, Viscount
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pronunciation:
[kasteelyoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1800–75)
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| biography:
| Poet, blind from childhood, born in Lisbon, Portugal. His volumes, Cartas de Echo e Narciso (1821, Letters from Echo and Narcissus) and Amor e melancholia (1828, Love and Melancholy), inaugurated the Portuguese Romantic movement. He also translated Virgil, Ovid, Shakespeare, and Goethe. |
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