Viscount Castilho, Antonio Feliciano Biography (1800–75)

Poet, blind from childhood, born in Lisbon, Portugal. His volumes, Cartas de Echo e Narciso (1821, Letters from Echo and Narcissus) and Amor e melancholia (1828, Love and Melancholy), inaugurated the Portuguese Romantic movement. He also translated Virgil, Ovid, Shakespeare, and Goethe.

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Poetry, Portuguese Literature, Romanticism (literature)


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