António Feliciano de Castilho
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António Feliciano de Castilho | |
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Born | 28 January 1800 Lisbon, Portugal |
Died | 18 June 1875 Lisbon, Portugal |
Occupation(s) | Writer, pedagogist |
António Feliciano de Castilho, 1st Viscount of Castilho (28 January 1800 – 18 June 1875) was a Portuguese writer.
Life
Castilho was born in Lisbon. He lost his sight at the age of six, but the devotion of his brother Augusto, and aided by a retentive memory, enabled him to go through his school and university course with success; and he acquired an almost complete mastery of the Latin language and literature.[1]
His first work of importance, the Cartas de Echo e Narciso (1821), belongs to the pseudo-classical school in which he had been brought up, but his
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When the Coimbra question arose in 1865, Garrett was dead and Herculano had ceased to write, leaving Castilho supreme, for the moment, in the realm of letters. But the youthful Antero de Quental withstood his claim to direct the rising generation and attacked his superannuated leadership, and after a fierce war of pamphlets Castilho was dethroned. The rise of João de Deus reduced him to a secondary position in the Portuguese Parnassus, and when he died ten years later much of his former fame had preceded him to the tomb.[1]
Castilho died in Lisbon.
Named after
A club named GS Castilho based in Mindelo, Cape Verde is named after him. The club was founded by students on 18 February 1923 during Portuguese rule. It is the second oldest club in Cape Verde.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Prestage 1911.
- ^ "Parabéns Castilho". A Semana (in Portuguese). 3 June 2007. Retrieved 11 May 2017.[permanent dead link]
Attribution:
- public domain: Prestage, Edgar (1911). "Castilho, Antonio Feliciano de". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 476. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the