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Ângelo Vaz Pinto Azevedo Coutinho de Lima

1872–1921

Remembered as Ângelo de Lima, this Portuguese poet and visual artist became one of the most unusual voices linked to the modernist magazine Orpheu. His life was marked by hardship, but his work still stands out for its intensity, strangeness, and emotional force.

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Orpheu Nº2

Orpheu Nº2

by Alvaro de Campos, Violante Cisneiros, Eduardo Guimarães, Raul de Oliveira Sousa Leal, Ângelo Vaz Pinto Azevedo Coutinho de Lima, Luís de Montalvor, Fernando Pessoa, Mário de Sá-Carneiro

About the author

Born in Porto in 1872, he was the son of poet Pedro de Lima and Maria Amália Azevedo Coutinho de Lima. He studied for a time at the Colégio Militar in Lisbon, later enrolled at the Academia de Belas Artes do Porto, and also served in Mozambique before returning to Portugal.

His drawings appeared in Porto periodicals such as A Geração Nova and Revista Azul. He is now especially associated with Orpheu, the landmark modernist review that helped introduce his poetry to a wider literary audience.

His life was also shaped by long periods of psychiatric hospitalization. After earlier treatment in Porto, he was confined to Hospital de Rilhafoles in Lisbon from late 1901 until his death in 1921, a tragic background that has often influenced how readers approach his work.