Manoel Maria de Barbosa du Bocage

Manoel Maria de Barbosa du Bocage (born September 15, 1765 in Setúbal , † December 21, 1805 in Lisbon ) was an important Portuguese poet of the 18th century, the Age of Enlightenment .

Manoel Maria de Barbosa du Bocage

Bocage entered the naval service and was transferred to Goa in 1785 by the naval minister, whom he had insulted with a sharp reply . In 1788 he came to Macau and did not return to Portugal until 1790, when he was released from military service.

From then on he devoted himself entirely to poetry and soon became one of the most respected members of the Segunda Arcadia poets' society . As a result of a philosophical epistle à la Voltaire , in the enlightened writer denied the immortality of the soul, he was in command of the 1797 Inquisition arrested, but received in 1798 through the influence of the Minister of the Interior, the Duke of Lafões , and the Marques de Pombal his Freedom again. Once again under investigation as a Freemason in 1802 , he died on December 21, 1805.

Bocage's sonnets are some of the most beautiful written in Portuguese .

expenditure

• Manuel Maria de Barbosa du Bocage: Sonetos. Schmidt & Günther, Leipzig 1930.
• Cleonice Berardinelli (Ed.): Os melhores poemas de Bocage. Seleção. Global Editora, São Paulo 1987. (3rd edition 2000).

literature

• Adelto Gonçalves: Bocage, o perfil perdido. Editorial Caminho, Lisbon, 2003, ISBN 972-21-1561-8 .
• Martin Neumann (ed.): Between all stools: Manuel Maria de Barbosa du Bocage. Files from the colloquium on the 200th year of the poet's death, Hamburg, June 20-22, 2005. Romanistischer Verlag, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-86143-167-X ( Treatises on language and literature. 162).