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TOMÁS ANTONIO GONZAGA

Tomás Antônio Gonzaga, filho de pai brasileiro, é natural do Porto, Portugal, onde nasceu a 11 de agosto de 1744, e morreu em Moçambique, em data desconhecida, aproximadamente entre os anos 1809 e 1810.

Diplomou-se em Direito pela Universidade de Coimbracelebrizou Marília, seguindo a magistratura. Foi ouvidor e procurador dos defuntos e ausentes em Vila Rica, atual cidade de Ouro Preto-MG, onde conheceu e apaixonou-se por Maria Dorotéia Joaquina de Seixas, idealizada sob o nome de Marília, personagem do livro que o celebrizou—Marília de Dirceu, sendo Dirceu o nome arcaico de Tomás Antônio Gonzaga.

Sendo acusado de participação na Inconfidência Mineira, foi condenado e preso por três anos nas masmorras da ilha amorosas Marília d Dirceu eacartas Cartass Cobras-RJ, onde talvez tenha escrito as mais notáveis de suas liras. Condenado ao degredo por dez anos, em Moçambique, casou-se com Juliana Mascarenhas de Sousa, filha de um rico mercador.

Foi autor de liras amorosas—Marília de Dirceu—e de poemas satíricos em forma de cartas—Cartas Chilenas.

Tomás Antônio Gonzaga é considerado um dos grandes poetas do Arcadismo brasileiro, e seus versos, fugindo à tendência da época, são marcados por expressão própria, pela harmonização dos elementos racionais e afetivos e por um toque de sensualidade pouco pronunciado, senão ausente, nos outros autores árcades.


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TOMÁS ANTÔNIO GONZAGA

Tomás Antônio Gonzaga, son of Brazilian father, was born in Porto, Portugal, on August 11, 1744, and died in Mozambique, date unknown, probably around 1809 or 1810.

Graduated in Law by the University of Coimbra, followed the magistrate career. Justice and attorney of deeds and absents in Vila Rica, today Ouro Preto-MG, he felt in love with Maria Dorotéia Joaquina de Seixas who he idealized by the name of Marília, character of the book that made him famous, "Marília de Dirceu", Dirceu being the archaic name for Tomás Antônio Gonzaga.

Accused of participating in the "Inconfidência Mineira" (revolutionary movement against Portuguese colonialism in Brazil), he was sentenced and kept prisoner for three years in the dungeon of the ilha das Cobras-RJ, where he probably produced the best of his poems.

Exiled for ten years in Mozambique he married Juliana Mascarenhas de Sousa, daughter of a rich local merchant.
Tomás Antônio Gonzaga is considered one of the major poets of our Arcadian literature and his verses, unlike the tendency of his times, are marked by their own expression, by harmonizing rational and emotional elements and by a touch of sensuality hardly unveiled, when not absent from other Arcadian authors.

 


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