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Pedro Luís Pereira de Sousa

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Nationality
  
Brazilian

Role
  
Poet

Subject
  
Social engagement


Notable works
  
Terribilis Dea

Relatives
  
Washington Luis

Name
  
Pedro Pereira

Literary movement
  
Romanticism

Pedro Luis Pereira de Sousa

Born
  
13 December 1839 Araruama, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (
1839-12-13
)

Occupation
  
Lawyer, journalist, politician, orator, poet

Alma mater
  
University of Sao Paulo

Died
  
July 16, 1884, Bananal, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Education
  
University of Sao Paulo

Biografia pedro lu s pereira de sousa


Pedro Luís Pereira de Sousa (December 13, 1839 – July 16, 1884) was a Brazilian poet, politician, orator and lawyer, adept of the "Condorist" movement. He is the patron of the 31st chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

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Life

Pedro Luís was born in Araruama, in 1839. He made his primary studies in the Instituto Freeze, in Nova Friburgo, where he met Casimiro de Abreu. Graduated in Law in the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo in 1860, he established himself as a lawyer in Rio de Janeiro. A deputy between 1864–1866 and 1878–1881, he would also become minister of Foreign Affairs in 1880 and the governor of Bahia in 1882. Among many others, he was decorated with the Order of the Rose.

He died in 1884.

Works

  • Terribilis Dea (1860)
  • Os Voluntários da Morte (1864)
  • A Sombra de Tiradentes e Nunes Machado (1866)
  • Prisca Fides (1876)
  • Trivia

  • He was the uncle of former Brazilian president Washington Luís.
  • His major work, Terribilis Dea, heavily influenced Castro Alves, who wrote a poem based on it, named "Deusa incruenta".
  • References

    Pedro Luís Pereira de Sousa Wikipedia