“As recordações são os únicos belos astros que adornam a noite da velhice.”
Portuguese writer, poet, translator, and educator António Feliciano de Castilho died #OTD in 1875.
Castilho became a leading figure in the Portuguese Romantic movement. He was a prolific translator and his translations included works by Goethe, Lamartine, and Byron, among others. He also developed a method for teaching reading to the blind.
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