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Santa Rita Durão

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Occupation
  
Orator, poet, priest

Subject
  
Indianism

Died
  
1784, Lisbon, Portugal

Nationality
  
Portuguese

Notable works
  
Caramuru

Education
  
University of Coimbra


Alma mater
  
University of Coimbra

Name
  
Santa Durao

Literary movement
  
Neoclassicism

Genre
  
Epic poetry

Role
  
Poet

Books
  
Caramuru

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José de Santa Rita Durão (1722–1784) was a Colonial Brazilian Neoclassic poet, orator and Augustinian friar. He is considered a forerunner of "Indianism" in Brazilian literature, with his epic poem Caramuru.

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He is the correspondent patron of the 9th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

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Life

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José de Santa Rita Durão was born in Mariana, in what is now the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, in 1722. For 10 years he studied at the Jesuit College of Rio de Janeiro and, one year later, he went to Europe, where he became an Augustinian priest. He graduated in Philosophy and Theology at the University of Coimbra, where he would occupy a Theology chair.

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During the government of the Marquis of Pombal, he was persecuted and fled from Portugal. After being imprisoned in Spain as a spy, he went to Rome, where he worked as a librarian for 20 years, also travelling to Spain and France.

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After the Pombaline government fell, he returned to Portugal, and delivered the opening address at the university of Coimbra for the year 1777. Soon afterwards, he retired to the cloisters of a convent. There he wrote his masterpiece and only known work: the Camões-influenced epic poem Caramuru, published in 1781 and based on the life of the famous Portuguese sailor Diogo Álvares Correia (a.k.a. "Caramuru" – Old Tupí for "Son of the Thunder"). Legend says Durão was a very prolific writer, and wrote many poems during his lifetime. However, Caramuru received lackluster reviews by the intellectuals of the time, and Durão, heart-broken, destroyed all his poems and other literary works.

He died in Lisbon in 1784.

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References

Santa Rita Durão Wikipedia