Adeodato Barreto

Júlio Francisco António Adeodato Barreto (Konkani: जूलियॊ फ़्रांसिस्कॊ आंतॊनियॊ आदॆयॊदातॊ बार्रॆतॊ; 3 December 1905 - 6 August 1937), popularly known as Adeodato Barreto, was an Indo-Portuguese poet and writer.

Though brought up as Catholic and in western style, his works contain important archetypes and paradigms of Hindu culture. One can see in his poems the notions of Eternal Return and of transmigration, a cornerstone of the Indian philosophy^[1]

Bibliography

Civilização Hindu, 1935

Fragmentos - Testamento Moral de Vicente Mariano Barreto, 1936

O Livro da Vida. (Cânticos Indianos), 1940 (Posthumous)

External Links

Text by Goan Lúcio Miranda about Adeodato Barreto (Portuguese)

References

^ [1] Machado, E. V. (2005), India mythica in Portuguese - Adeodato Barreto and the Eternal Return, Talk at The Fundação Oriente

Persondata
Name	Júlio Francisco Adeodato Barreto
Alternative names
Short description	Indo-Portuguese poet and writer
Date of birth	3 December 1905
Place of birth	Margao, Goa, Portuguese India
Date of death	6 August 1937
Place of death	Coimbra, Portugal