author
A. Ferreira de Freitas
A little-known Portuguese poet of the 19th century, remembered today for a lively poem about Lisbon’s literary world. What survives of his record is sparse, which gives his work an added sense of discovery.
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Os Litteratos em Lisboa: Poemeto
by A. Ferreira de Freitas
About the author
A. Ferreira de Freitas is identified in library and reference records as a Portuguese writer and poet active in the 19th century. The basic facts available online are limited, but multiple catalog-style sources agree on his nationality, literary role, and association with the period.
He is chiefly known for Os litteratos em Lisboa: poemeto, a work dated 1865 and listed as his notable or surviving work in public-domain and reference sources. The poem’s title points to Lisbon’s literary scene, and modern readers most often encounter him through digitized editions.
Because so little biographical information appears to have survived in easily verifiable sources, details such as his full name, exact birth and death dates, and personal life remain unclear. That makes him one of those authors known more through the endurance of a single work than through a fully documented life story.