Tomás António Ribeiro Ferreira (1 July 1831 — 6 February 1901), better known as Tomás Ribeiro or Thomaz Ribeiro, was a Portuguese politician, journalist, poet and Ultra-Romantic

Ultra-romanticism

Ultra-Romanticism was a Portuguese and Brazilian literary movement that occurred during the 1840s, 1850s and the early 1860s. Aesthetically similar to the Dark Romanticism, as the name implies it is an overvalue of the Romantic ideals....

writer.

He was born in Parada de Gonta, Viseu

Viseu

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. After graduating in law at the University of Coimbra, he practised law briefly before turning to a political career. A prominent member of the Partido Regenerador, he was at various times Mayor of Viseu

Viseu

Viseu is both a city and a municipality in the Dão-Lafões Subregion of Centro Region, Portugal. The municipality, with an area of 507.1 km², has a population of 99,593 , and the city proper has 47,250...

, Deputy, Peer of the Realm, Minister of Maritime Affairs, Minister of Public Works and Civil Governor of the districts of Braga

Braga

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 and Porto

Porto

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. He was also secretary general of the government of Portuguese India

Portuguese India

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 and ambassador of Portugal in Brazil. Elected a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, he was president of the Department of Letters. He died in Lisbon

Lisbon

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 and was buried in the Cemitério dos Prazeres.

A versatile writer and journalist, Tomás Ribeiro left a vast body of work. He was the father of the poet Branca de Gonta Colaço and grandfather of the writer Tomás Ribeiro Colaço.

Selected works

• D. Jaime ou a dominação de Castela, nationalist poem, 1862
• A Delfina do Mal, poetry, 1868
• Sons que Passam, poetry, 1868
• A Indiana entr'acte in verse, 1873
• Vésperas, 1880
• Jornadas, travel writing, 1873
  • 1.ª parte - Do Tejo ao Mandovi
  • 2.ª parte - Entre Palmeiras
  • 3.ª parte - Entre Primores
• Dissonâncias, 1890
• História da Legislação Liberal Portuguesa, essay, 1891-1892
• Empréstimo de D. Miguel, essay, 1880
• O Mensageiro de Fez, poem in praise of Our Lady of Carnaxide
  Carnaxide
  Carnaxide is a town near Lisbon, located in Oeiras Municipality, Portugal, with a population of 21,353 inhabitants, a total area of 6,63 km² and a density of 3,220.7 hab/km². It was elevated to town on August 16, 1991....
  
  , 1900.