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Francisco Manuel de Oliveira
poet · teacher · translator
Eighteenth-century Madeiran poet who held the public chair of philosophy in Funchal from 1772. He is remembered for introducing Oriental poetry to Portugal through translations made from English versions, and for his Colecção Poética (1794).
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- Academies — Poet whose Colecção Poética, published in 1794, contains an elegy on the death of a member of the Arcadia Funchalense.
- Teatro Grande — Poet whose Colecção Poética records the theatre's reopening in 1786, for which he wrote a verse prologue.
- Oliveira (João Nepomuceno de) — Madeiran writer and father of João Nepomuceno de Oliveira.
- Outeiros — Teacher whose poetry collection contains verses written for outeiros in Funchal.
- Murray (Charles) — Madeiran poet who translated the pamphlet on reviving the drowned published at Murray's expense in 1788.
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