Francisco Manuel do Nascimento

Portuguese poet
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Also known as: Filinto Elísio
Quick Facts
Pseudonym:
Filinto Elísio
Born:
December 23, 1734, Lisbon, Portugal
Died:
February 25, 1819, Paris, France (aged 84)

Francisco Manuel do Nascimento (born December 23, 1734, Lisbon, Portugal—died February 25, 1819, Paris, France) was the last of the Portuguese Neoclassical poets, whose conversion late in life to Romanticism helped prepare the way for that movement’s triumph in his country. Of humble birth and probably illegitimate, Nascimento was educated by Jesuits and ordained in 1754. In 1768 he became tutor to the daughters of the marquis of Alorna and fell in love with one of them, the “Maria” of his poems. Disapproving of the low-born poet’s affection for his daughter, the marquis may have been ultimately responsible for Nascimento’s ...(100 of 215 words)