Fagundes Varela
Lus Nicolau Fagundes Varela was a Brazilian Romantic poet, adept of the UltraRomanticism movement. He is patron of the 11th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Lus Nicolau Fagundes Varela was born in Rio Claro in 1841, to Emiliano Fagundes Varela and Emlia de Andrade. He spent most of his childhood at the farm where he was born, later moving to innumerous places, among them the city of Catalo, Gois, where he met Bernardo Guimares. Returning to Rio, he lived in Angra dos Reis and Petrpolis, where he concluded his primary and secondary studies. In 1859, he goes to So Paulo and, in 1862, enters at the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de So Paulo, but abandons it to dedicate himself to the literature and to the bohemianism. He published his first poetry book, Noturnas, one year before.
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