Camilo Pessanha
- Category : 1867-births
- Type : ME
- Profile : 4/6 - Opportunistic / Role Model
- Definition : Split - Small (23)
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Consciousness 3
Biography
Portuguese symbolist poet, primarily influenced by Cesário Verde and Paul Verlaine, whose poems were published in a single volume, Clepsidra (1920). In the years that followed, other poems not included in Clepsidra but attributed to Pessanha appeared in the Portuguese press. Clepsidra eventually came out in a 1945 edition and was radically re-edited in 1956.
Pessanha died on 1 March 1926, aged 58, due to tuberculosis aggravated by his chronic opium addiction.