Person poet journalist civil servant
Januário Justiniano de Nóbrega
1824–1866
poet · journalist · civil servant · writer
Funchal municipal clerk, journalist and poet, nephew of the poet Francisco Álvares de Nóbrega, whose Rimas he reprinted in Funchal in 1850. He wrote an account of the Empress of Brazil's visit to Madeira and destroyed his collected poems shortly before his probable suicide.
1Mentioned in
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- Carvalho (João da Silva) — Author of the work on the Empress of Brazil's visit published by Carvalho in 1867.
- Materials for Madeiran History — Madeiran writer whose historical-statistical work paid for by Funchal council was lost.
- Political Parties — Former Regenerator in the Popular party.
- Alvares de Nobrega (Francisco) — The poet's nephew, poet and journalist, who wrote a biographical account of him and reprinted the Rimas in Funchal in 1850.
- Oliveira (João Fortunato de) — Madeiran poet whose verse was meant to fill the unpublished second part of Flores Agrestes.
- Maria Amélia (Princess) — Author of an 1867 pamphlet on the empress's visit to Madeira and the founding of the hospice.
2Chronology
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Januário Justiniano de Nóbrega was born in Funchal.
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Januário Justiniano de Nóbrega died after a fall from a seaside cliff (one source gives 28 July).
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Januário Justiniano de Nóbrega's account of the visit of the Empress of Brazil and of the hospice was published posthumously in Funchal, edited by João da Silva Carvalho.
