Marilia de Dirceo by Tomás António Gonzaga

"Marilia de Dirceo" by Tomás António Gonzaga is a collection of poems published in 1792. Written by a Portuguese poet living in colonial Brazil, these verses celebrate his love for Maria Doroteia, his young fiancée. The work blends pastoral imagery with deeply personal emotion, becoming one of the most widely published works in Portuguese literature after "Os Lusíadas." Divided into three parts, the collection transforms as the poet faces imprisonment and exile, shifting from romantic idealization to darker reflections on separation and loss. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Gonzaga, Tomás António, 1744-1810?
Title Marilia de Dirceo
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADlia_de_Dirceu Wikipedia page about this book: pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADlia_de_Dirceu
Credits Produced by Rita Farinha and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by National Library of Portugal (Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal).)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 62.7 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language Portuguese
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Poetry
Category Text
eBook-No. 18082
Release Date
Last Update Apr 5, 2006
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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