Camilo Pessanha Camilo Pessanha (September 7, 1867, Coimbra – March 1, 1926, Macau) was a Portuguese symbolist poet. Biography Early years Camilo de Almeida Pessanha was born the illegitimate son of Francisco António de Almeida Pessanha, an aristocratic law student, and Maria do Espírito Santo Duarte Nunes Pereira, his housekeeper, on September 7, 1867, at 11.00 p.m., in Sé Nova, Coimbra, Portugal. The couple would have four more children. In 1870, after his fathers graduation, the family moved to Azores, where he had been appointed public defender. In 1878 the Pessanha family was living in Lamego where young Camilo completed his basic schooling. In 1884 he finished his secondary studies and, following his fathers footsteps, entered law school at the Coimbra University. A year later, he wrote his first poem, Lúbrica (Lascivious). The next several years he would write more poems and publish some of them in local newspapers. From early 1888...
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