António Botto
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António Botto was a Portuguese aesthete and lyricist poet.
António Botto in the 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, Lisbon, 1928
Carminda Rodrigues, Botto's common-law wife, 1940s
Fernando Pessoa
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Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, and publisher. He has been described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th
António Botto
…followed by Cantigas de Saudade (1918), Cantares (1919) and Canções do Sul (1920). Canções (Songs) was published in 1921 and went unnoticed. Only after Fernando Pessoa published its 2nd edition, through his publishing house "Olisipo", emerged a public scandal amongst the Lisbon society which granted Botto a lifelong…
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.