Luís de Camões
1524–1580
Wrote Portugal's national epic and died poor; the bones in his tomb may not be his
Jerónimos Monastery, Belém, Lisbon
In memory of
Fernando Pessoa
Poet who was several poets
- Born
- Died
- Lived
- 47 years
- Resting place
- Jerónimos Monastery, Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
Pessoa wrote under more than seventy names, and three of them — Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos — were not pen names but whole invented poets with their own biographies, politics and quarrels with one another. He translated commercial letters for a living and published one slim book of Portuguese verse in his lifetime.
After his death a trunk was found holding some 25,000 unpublished papers, which scholars are still sorting. He was moved to the Jerónimos in 1985, near Vasco da Gama and Camões.
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