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Camilo Castelo Branco

Died in 1890

Camilo Castelo Branco was born in Lisbon in 1825, the natural son of a noble father and a mother of the common people; orphaned, he was taken in by a paternal aunt in Vila Real. Married at sixteen, he studied medicine for a time in Porto, then lived by his pen, one of the most prolific authors of Portuguese literature. Tried for adultery with Ana Plácido, imprisoned for more than a year in Porto and then acquitted, he married her later. Made a viscount in 1885, nearly blind and ill, he took his own life in 1890.

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