Francisco Dias Gomes (1745 – 30 September 1795) was a

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poet and

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Biography

Francisco Dias Gomes was born in

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, the son of Fructuoso Dias, a local

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, and his wife Vivência Gomes. His work was little known to contemporary men of letters and his career was spent primarily writing

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in elegiac meter and studying the progress of

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's language and literature. He died of an epidemic

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in 1795.McElrone (1883), p. 656.

References

Works

* ''Analise e Combinações Filosóficas sobre a Elocução e Estilo de Sá de Miranda, Ferreira, Bernardes, Caminha, e Camões'' (1792). * ''Ifigenia: Tragédia Tirada da História Grega'' (1798). * ''Obras Poeticas de Francisco Dias Gomes'' (1799). * ''Electra'' (1799). * ''Elegia à Morte de hum Homem Honrado e Virtuoso'' (1799).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dias Gomes, Francisco 1745 births 1795 deaths People from Lisbon 18th-century Portuguese poets Portuguese male poets Portuguese Roman Catholics Roman Catholic writers 18th-century male writers

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