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Fernandes Costa
1848–1920
A Portuguese man of letters and army officer, he moved easily between poetry, translation, and literary journalism. He is especially remembered for founding the long-running Almanach Bertrand and for his work in Lisbon’s literary world.
2 Audiobooks
Historia da Grecia
by Fernandes Costa
A viagem da Índia: poemeto em dois cantos
by Fernandes Costa
About the author
Born in Lisbon on July 5, 1848, José Fernandes Costa died there on July 31, 1920. Records from the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon describe him as an army officer who also built a strong literary career as a poet, translator, and founder of the Almanach Bertrand.
He appears in Lisbon’s historical author index as a contributor to several periodicals, including Brasil-Portugal, A Leitura, and A Semana de Lisboa. That mix of military service and steady literary activity helps explain why he is remembered as both a public servant and a committed man of letters.
Some library and catalog records list him simply as Fernandes Costa or José Fernandes Costa, but they point to the same Lisbon-born writer active in Portuguese literary culture around the turn of the twentieth century.