Person poet writer foreign visitor
António Feliciano de Castilho
António Feliciano Pinto Pacheco de Novais Barreto e Castilho
poet · writer · foreign visitor · noble
Blind Portuguese poet and man of letters who stayed in Funchal, at the Penha de França house, from November 1840 to January 1841. He came to accompany his brother Augusto Frederico de Castilho, who had come to the island for his tuberculosis and died in Funchal in December 1840.
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- Historical dates — Portuguese poet who arrived in Madeira in 1840.
- Meteorological stations — Head of the Funchal Meteorological Observatory who supplied the updated information quoted in the entry.
- Our Lady of the Peña de Francia (chapel) — Portuguese poet who lived in the Penha house from November 1840 to January 1841 while accompanying his dying brother.
- Ornelas de Vasconcelos (Agostinho de) — Portuguese poet whose later Faust translation is compared with the subject's.
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Abroad