Bernardo Guimarães
Bernardo Guimarães | |
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Born | Bernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães 15 August 1825 Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Died | 10 March 1884 Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil | (aged 58)
Occupation | Poet, novelist |
Nationality | Brazilian |
Alma mater | University of São Paulo |
Literary movement | Romanticism |
Notable works | A Escrava Isaura, O Seminarista, O Garimpeiro |
Spouse | Teresa Maria Gomes de Lima |
Bernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães (Portuguese pronunciation:
He is patron of the fifth chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Biography
Bernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães was born in the city of Ouro Preto, in Minas Gerais, to João Joaquim da Silva Guimarães (a poet) and Constança Beatriz de Oliveira Guimarães.
He graduated himself at the
In 1852, he became a judge in the city of
Some of his most famous descendants were José Armelim Bernardo Guimarães and Alphonsus de Guimaraens.
Works
- Cantos da Solidão (Solitude Songs — 1852)
- O Ermitão de Muquém (The Hermit of Muquém — 1868)
- Lendas e Romances (Legends and Romances — 1871)
- O Garimpeiro (The Prospector — 1872)
- Histórias da Província de Minas Gerais (Stories from the Minas Gerais Province — 1872)
- O Seminarista (The Seminarist — 1872)
- O Índio Afonso (Afonso the Indian — 1873)
- A Morte de Gonçalves Dias (Gonçalves Dias' Death — 1873)
- A Escrava Isaura (Isaura the Slave — 1875)
- Novas Poesias (New Poems — 1876)
- Maurício, ou; Os Paulistas em São João Del-Rei (Maurício, or; The Paulistas in São João Del-Rei — 1877)
- A Ilha Maldita (The Damned Island — 1879)
- O Pão de Ouro (The Golden Bread — 1879)
- Rosaura, a Enjeitada (The Neglected Rosaura — 1883)
- Folhas de Outono (Autumn Leaves — 1883)
- O Bandido do Rio das Mortes (The Bandit of the Death River — 1904, posthumous)
External links
- Bernardo Guimarães' biography at the official site of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (in Portuguese)
- A site produced and maintained by descendants of the writer Archived 2016-08-27 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)