Francisco Otaviano
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A photograph depicting Otaviano
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| Born | Francisco Otaviano de Almeida Rosa 26 June 1825 Rio de Janeiro, Empire of Brazil |
| Died | 28 June 1889 (aged 63) Rio de Janeiro, Empire of Brazil |
| Occupation | Poet, lawyer, politician, diplomat, journalist |
| Nationality |
 Brazilian |
| Alma mater | University of São Paulo |
| Literary movement | Romanticism |
Francisco Otaviano de Almeida Rosa (June 26, 1825 – June 28, 1889) was a Brazilian poet, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician. He is famous for translating into Portuguese works by famous writers such as Horace, Catullus, Lord Byron, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Victor Hugo and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, mostly of them for the first time.
He is the patron of the 13th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Otaviano was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1825, to Otaviano Maria da Rosa, a doctor, and Joana Maria da Rosa. He entered the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo in 1841, graduating in 1845. Returning to Rio, he started to collaborate for newspapers such as Sentinela da Monarquia, the Official Gazette of the Empire of Brazil, Jornal do Commercio and Correio Mercantil.
From 1867 to 1869 he was the deputy (later senator) of the Empire of Brazil, and served as the negotiator of the Treaty of the Triple Alliance among Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
He died in 1889.
His most famous poem is "Ilusões da vida" ("Illusions of the life").
Quem passou pela vida em branca nuvem,
E em plácido repouso adormeceu;
Quem não sentiu o frio da desgraça;
Quem passou pela vida e não sofreu;
Foi espectro de homem, não foi homem —
Só passou pela vida, não viveu.
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