Caetano da Costa Alegre

Caetano da Costa Alegre was born on 26 April 1864 on the island of São Tomé, into a Creole family. He settled in Portugal in 1882 to study medicine in Lisbon and contributed to periodicals, but died at Alcobaça on 18 April 1890, before finishing his studies. His poems were collected only after his death. Naduska Mário Palmeira regards him as the first writer born in the archipelago to have had a real presence in European letters.

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• PoetryVersosCaetano da Costa Alegre · 1916not translated into EnglishLiterature