Tomás Antônio Gonzaga

Tomás Antônio Gonzaga was born on 11 August 1744 in Porto. His father took him to Brazil, to Recife and then Bahia, where he studied with the Jesuits, and he completed his law degree at Coimbra in 1768. Appointed judge in Vila Rica in 1782, he was about to marry Maria Doroteia Joaquina de Seixas when he was arrested in 1789 for the Minas conspiracy. After three years in prison, he was exiled to Mozambique, where he married the daughter of a wealthy Portuguese man and worked as a lawyer. He died there around 1810.

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• PoetryMarília de DirceuTomás Antônio Gonzaga · 1792not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain