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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

José Agostinho de Macedo (1761–1831)

Macedo, José Agostinho de. A noted Portuguese miscellaneous writer; born at Beja, Sept. 11, 1761; died at Pedrouços, 1831. Among his works are: ‘Gama’ (1811), an epic; ‘A Meditaçao’ (Meditation: 1813), a poem, his chief work; ‘Man, or the Limits of Reason’ (1815), a philosophical treatise; a number of sarcastic critiques; etc.