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Elisino Sadão
A little-known poet remembered for a heartfelt tribute to Portugal’s celebrated satirist Bocage. Elisino Sadão’s surviving work offers a glimpse of early-20th-century literary admiration, blending praise, reflection, and social criticism.
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Versos em honra do grande poeta Manoel Maria Barbosa du Bocage
by Elisino Sadão
About the author
Very little biographical information about Elisino Sadão has been preserved. The name is associated with Versos em honra do grande poeta Manoel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, a Portuguese-language poetry collection published in 1905.
The book honors Bocage, the influential Portuguese poet known for his lyrical skill and sharp satire. Sadão’s verses celebrate Bocage’s talent while questioning the way society recognizes artists only after hardship and death.
Today, Elisino Sadão is known chiefly through this surviving volume, which remains available in digital public-domain collections.