Laurindo Rabelo
Laurindo Jos da Silva Rabelo was a Brazilian UltraRomantic poet, teacher and medician. Famous for his lundu lyrics and satires, he won the epithet of the Brazilian Bocage, and, because of his physical appearance, the nickname PoetaLagartixa .
Rabelo was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1826, to Ricardo Jos da Silva Rabelo and Lusa Maria da Conceio. His parents were very poor. Initially, he planned to follow the ecclesiastic career, and entered in a seminary, but he quit, because of intrigues among his colleagues. He tried a course at the Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras, but he couldnt make it either. Finally, he entered in a Medicine course, finishing it in Bahia, but exercing his profession in Rio.
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