António Cândido Gonçalves Crespo (11 March 1846 – 11 June 1883) was a Brazilian-born Portuguese poet.
Biography
Born to a Portuguese father and ónioCândidoGonça slave mother on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro on 11 March 1846, he moved to Portugal at the age of ten. He was educated at the University of Coimbra, but "devoted himself almost exclusively to the Muses at Lisbon." His poetry was deeply informed by Parnassianism. He occasionally collaborated with his wife Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho, also a noted writer.
He died in Lisbon on 11 June 1883, aged 37.
Bibliography
Miniaturas (1870) Nocturnos (1882) Obras Completas (1887)
References
External links
Sonnets by Crespo (In Portuguese)
1846 births
1883 deaths
Writers from Rio de Janeiro (city) Portuguese people of Brazilian descent Portuguese male poets University of Coimbra alumni Writers from Lisbon 19th-century Portuguese poets 19th-century male writers 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in Portugal