Person physician poet journalist
Francisco Clementino de Sousa
1846–1896
physician · poet · journalist · teacher
Funchal-born physician, sanitary inspector and bank treasurer, best remembered as a gifted satirical poet and journalist who often wrote as 'Faustino Brasão'. He co-wrote A Guyaneida, edited the Diário de Notícias and was twice interim professor at the Escola Médico-Cirúrgica.
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- Misericórdias — Physician-surgeon to whom an anonymous 1868 pamphlet on the Camara Leme dispute is attributed.
- Diário de Notícias — One of the paper's successive editors.
- Medina e Vasconcelos (Francisco de Paula) — Madeiran satirical poet said to descend from Medina.
- Guiana Epic — One of the young co-authors of the satirical poem A Guyaneida.
- Medical-Surgical School — Graduate, twice interim professor and a distinguished alumnus.
- Pereira de Sousa (Francisco Luís) — Distinguished Madeiran writer and father of the geologist Francisco Luís Pereira de Sousa.
