Gonçalves Dias

Antônio Gonçalves Dias was born on 10 August 1823 near Caxias, in Maranhão, of Portuguese, Indigenous and African descent. Sent to study law at Coimbra, he wrote his first verses there. An ethnologist as much as a poet, he published a dictionary of the Tupi language and in 1859 took part in a scientific expedition in the north of the country, from which he returned ill. Having gone to Europe to seek treatment, he died on 3 November 1864 in the wreck of the ship bringing him home, off Maranhão, the only victim of the wreck.

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• PoetrySong of ExileCanção do exílioGonçalves Dias · 1846LiteraturePublic domain