Francisco Otaviano

Poet, Author

1825 – 1889

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Who was Francisco Otaviano?

Francisco Otaviano de Almeida Rosa was a Brazilian poet, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician. He is famous for translating into Portuguese works by famous writers such as Horace, Catullus, Lord Byron, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Victor Hugo and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, mostly of them for the first time.

He is the patron of the 13th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

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Born
Jun 26, 1825
Rio de Janeiro
Profession
Education
  • University of São Paulo
Died
Jun 28, 1889
Rio de Janeiro

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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