António Gomes Leal

Portuguese poet (1848-1921)

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António Duarte Gomes Leal

Born	(1848-06-06)6 June 1848 Lisbon, Portugal
Died	29 January 1921(1921-01-29) (aged 72)
Nationality	Portuguese
Genre	Romance, religion
Subject	Women, death, travel, misery

António Gomes Leal was a Portuguese poet.^[1]

Life and work

Leal was born in Rossio, part of Lisbon. He was the son of João António Gomes Leal (d. 1876), a customs officer, and Henrietta Fernandina Monteiro Alves Cabral Leal.

Leal studied literature, but did not complete his studies and became a notary clerk of Lisbon. During his youth he took the pose of a poet interested in Bohemianism and Satanism, but with the death of his mother in 1910, he fell into poverty and converted to Catholicism.^[2]

In 1933 the Lisbon City Council honored the poet by naming a street after him in the Bairro do Arco do Cego, Areeiro parish.

References

^ Teresa Soares Correia. "Gomes Leal". Centro Virtual Camões (in Portuguese). Instituto Camões. Retrieved 2012-02-08.
^ {Encyclopedia Larrousse (vol. 11)} ISBN 978-972-759-931-8