Antônio Gonçalves Dias was a Brazilian Romantic poet, playwright, ethnographer, lawyer and linguist. A major exponent of Brazilian Romanticism and of the literary tradition known as "Indianism", he is
From left to right: Dias, Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre and Gonçalves de Magalhães, on a picture dating from circa 1858
Manuscript of Dias' poem "Se te amo, não sei!", in his own handwriting. From the archives of the National Library of Brazil