José Agostinho de Macedo (11 September 1761 – 2 October 1831) was a Portuguese poet and prose writer. He was born in Beja to a plebeian family, and studied Latin and rhetoric with the Oratorians in Lisbon, Portugal. He became professed as an Augustinian in 1778, but owing to his turbulent character he spent a great part of his time in prison,and was constantly being transferred from one convent to another, finally giving up the monastic habit to live licentiously in the capital.
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11 September 1761 Beja, Kingdom of Portugal
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Died |
2 October 1831 (aged 70) Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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