Fernando Pessoa
1888 to 1935
12 documented presences
9 places
Quo Fuit places 12 dated presences for Fernando Pessoa across 9 places, from 1888 to 1923. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa (13 June 1888–30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, and publisher.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Fernando Pessoa was documented, and when
13 June 1888exact date
1896year
Durbanattested
“After the second marriage of his mother, Maria Magdalena Pinheiro Nogueira, by a proxy wedding to João Miguel dos Santos Rosa, Fernando sailed with his mother for South Africa in early 1896 to join his stepfather, a military officer appo…”
source: Wikipedia: Fernando Pessoa
April 1899month
Durbanattested
“He moved to the Durban High School in April 1899, becoming fluent in English and developing an appreciation for English literature.”
source: Wikipedia: Fernando Pessoa
April 1899month
Durban High Schoolattested
“He moved to the Durban High School in April 1899, becoming fluent in English and developing an appreciation for English literature.”
source: Wikipedia: Fernando Pessoa
1905year
Lisbonattested
“While his family remained in South Africa, Pessoa returned to Lisbon in 1905 to study diplomacy.”
source: Wikipedia: Fernando Pessoa
1905year
South Africaattested
“While his family remained in South Africa, Pessoa returned to Lisbon in 1905 to study diplomacy.”
source: Wikipedia: Fernando Pessoa
1907 to 1935period
Lisbonattested
“Indeed, from 1907 until his death in 1935, Pessoa worked in twenty-one firms located in Lisbon's downtown, sometimes in two or three of them simultaneously.”
source: Wikipedia: Fernando Pessoa
5 October 1910exact date
Taviraattested
“After the 5 October 1910 revolution and its subsequently patriotic atmosphere, Pessoa created another alter ego, Álvaro de Campos, supposedly a Portuguese naval and mechanical engineer, who was born in Tavira, hometown of Pessoa's ancest…”
source: Wikipedia: Fernando Pessoa
5 October 1910exact date
Glasgowattested
“After the 5 October 1910 revolution and its subsequently patriotic atmosphere, Pessoa created another alter ego, Álvaro de Campos, supposedly a Portuguese naval and mechanical engineer, who was born in Tavira, hometown of Pessoa's ancest…”
source: Wikipedia: Fernando Pessoa
December 1910month
Portoattested
“In 1912, Fernando Pessoa wrote a set of essays (later collected as The New Portuguese Poetry) for the cultural journal A Águia (The Eagle), founded in Oporto, in December 1910, and run by the republican association Renascença Portuguesa.”
source: Wikipedia: Fernando Pessoa
24 June 1916exact date
Switzerlandattested
“On June 24, 1916, Pessoa wrote an impressive letter to his aunt and godmother, then living in Switzerland with her daughter and son-in-law, in which he describes this "mystery case" that surprised him.”
source: Wikipedia: Fernando Pessoa
1923 to 1926period
Kingdom of Portugalattested
“After his return to Portugal, when he was seventeen, Pessoa barely left his beloved city of Lisbon, which inspired the poems "Lisbon Revisited" (1923 and 1926), written under the heteronym Álvaro de Campos.”
source: Wikipedia: Fernando Pessoa
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Places Fernando Pessoa is documented in
Lisbon3 presences · 1888 to 1907
Durban2 presences · 1896 to 1899
Glasgow1 presence · 1910Porto1 presence · 1910South Africa1 presence · 1905Switzerland1 presence · 1916Durban High School1 presence · 1899
Kingdom of Portugal1 presence · 1923
Tavira1 presence · 1910
Other places tied to Fernando Pessoa in the record
In each of these, a source puts Fernando Pessoa and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Fernando Pessoa was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1905 to 1920period
Pretoriamentioned
“From 1905 to 1920, when his family returned from Pretoria after the death of his stepfather, he lived in fifteen different locations in the city, moving from one rented room to another depending on his fluctuating finances and personal t…”
source: Wikipedia: Fernando Pessoa
June 1905month
Moonmentioned
“From February to June 1905, in the section "The Man in the Moon", The Natal Mercury also published at least four sonnets by Fernando Pessoa: "Joseph Chamberlain", "To England I", "To England II" and "Liberty".”
source: Wikipedia: Fernando Pessoa
June 1905month
Englandmentioned
“From February to June 1905, in the section "The Man in the Moon", The Natal Mercury also published at least four sonnets by Fernando Pessoa: "Joseph Chamberlain", "To England I", "To England II" and "Liberty".”
source: Wikipedia: Fernando Pessoa
1917 to 1926period
First Portuguese Republicmentioned
“He initially rallied to the First Portuguese Republic but the ensuing instability caused him to reluctantly support the military coups of 1917 and 1926 as a means of restoring order and preparing the transition to a new constitutional no…”
source: Wikipedia: Fernando Pessoa
1918year
Lisbonmentioned
“Since the attempt at British publication failed, in 1918 Pessoa published in Lisbon two slim volumes of English verse: Antinous and 35 Sonnets, received by the British literary press without enthusiasm.”
source: Wikipedia: Fernando Pessoa
1925year
Lisbonmentioned
“In 1925, Pessoa wrote in English a guidebook to Lisbon but it remained unpublished until 1992.”
source: Wikipedia: Fernando Pessoa
1930year
Kingdom of Portugalmentioned
“His interest in occultism led Pessoa to correspond with Aleister Crowley and later helped him to elaborate a fake suicide, when Crowley visited Portugal in 1930.”
source: Wikipedia: Fernando Pessoa
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