About António Gomes Leal
Lived 1848 – 1921 (aged 72). António Gomes Leal was a Portuguese poet, journalist, writer and literary critic.
António Gomes Leal was a Portuguese poet.
Life and work Leal was born in Rossio, part of Lisbon. He was the son of João António Gomes Leal (d. 1876), a customs officer, and Henrietta Fernandina Monteiro Alves Cabral Leal.
Leal studied literature, but did not complete his studies and became a notary clerk of Lisbon. During his youth he took the pose of a poet interested in Bohemianism and Satanism, but with the death of his mother in 1910, he fell into poverty and converted to Catholicism.
In 1933 the Lisbon City Council honored the poet by naming a street after him in the Bairro do Arco do Cego, Areeiro parish.
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Who was António Gomes Leal?
poet (1848–1921)
When was António Gomes Leal born?
António Gomes Leal was born on 6 June 1848 in Lisbon.
When did António Gomes Leal die?
António Gomes Leal died on 29 January 1921 in Lisbon.
What was António Gomes Leal's occupation?
António Gomes Leal was a poet, journalist, writer and literary critic.
What nationality was António Gomes Leal?
António Gomes Leal was Portuguese.
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