António Botto was a Portuguese aesthete and lyricist poet.
António Botto, 1940s
Canções, 2nd edition, 1922
(Left to right): Unknown man, Raul Leal, António Botto, Augusto Ferreira Gomes (standing), Fernando Pessoa at the Café Martinho da Arcada, Lisboa, 1928
Carminda Rodrigues, Botto's common-law wife, 1940s.
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher, and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He also wrote in and translated from English and French.
Portrait of Pessoa, 1914
Pessoa's birthplace: a large flat at São Carlos Square, just in front of Lisbon's opera.
Last year in Lisbon before moving to Durban, 1894, aged 6.
Pessoa in Durban, 1898, aged 10.