Cláudio Manuel da Costa

Cláudio Manuel da Costa was born on 5 July 1729 near Ribeirão do Carmo, now Mariana, in Minas Gerais. A pupil of the Jesuits in Rio de Janeiro, he left in 1749 for Coimbra, where he graduated in law in 1753, and returned to practise as a lawyer in Vila Rica. Secretary of the government of the captaincy from 1762 to 1765, he founded an Arcadian colony in 1768. Arrested in May 1789 for his part in the Minas conspiracy, he was found dead on 4 July in his prison in Ouro Preto; his death was officially declared a suicide.

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