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

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


Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Gomes_Leal
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