Antero de Quental

Antero de Quental was born in Ponta Delgada, in the Azores, on 18 April 1842, the son of a veteran of the Liberal Wars. A law graduate of Coimbra in 1864, he became the central figure of the generation that wanted to open the country to European ideas. A typesetter in Paris in 1867, he introduced the International Workingmen's Association to Portugal and in 1871 organised the Democratic Conferences of the Casino. Subject to depression all his life, he shot himself twice with a revolver on a bench in the Campo de São Francisco, in Ponta Delgada, on 11 September 1891.

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• PoetryOdes ModernasAntero de Quental · 1865not translated into EnglishLiterature