1. Luis Nicolau Fagundes Varela was a Brazilian Romantic poet, adept of the "Ultra-Romanticism" movement.
10 Facts About Fagundes Varela
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Fagundes Varela is patron of the 11th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
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Luis Nicolau Fagundes Varela was born in Rio Claro in 1841, to Emiliano Fagundes Varela and Emilia de Andrade.
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Fagundes Varela spent most of his childhood at the farm where he was born, later moving to innumerous places, among them the city of Catalao, Goias, where he met Bernardo Guimaraes.
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Fagundes Varela published his first poetry book, Noturnas, one year before.
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Fagundes Varela married a circus artist from Sorocaba, Alice Guilhermina Luande.
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Fagundes Varela's wife died in 1865 or 1866, while Varela was travelling to Recife.
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Fagundes Varela then returned to his house in Rio Claro, living there until 1870.
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Fagundes Varela married , with his cousin Maria Belisaria de Brito Lambert, having two daughters and one son.
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Some of Fagundes Varela's poems have an unusual theme for the Ultra-Romanticism: abolitionism.