Inácio José de Alvarenga Peixoto

Inácio José de Alvarenga Peixoto was born in 1744 in Rio de Janeiro. A pupil of the Jesuits, he studied law at Coimbra and then served as a judge at Sintra. Back in Brazil as ouvidor of the comarca of Rio das Mortes, he also engaged in farming and mining, and married the poet Bárbara Heliodora. He published no book in his lifetime. Implicated in the Minas conspiracy of 1789, he was arrested and then sentenced, exiled to Angola, and died at Ambaca shortly after his arrival.

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• PoetryCanto genetlíacoInácio José de Alvarenga Peixoto · 1794not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain