António Diniz da Cruz e Silva, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

António Diniz da Cruz e Silva

Portuguese writer

Date of Birth: 04-Jul-1731

Place of Birth: Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal

Date of Death: 05-Oct-1799

Profession: judge, writer, poet, author

Nationality: Portugal

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

António Diniz da Cruz e Silva (4 July 1731 in Lisbon – 5 October 1799 in Rio de Janeiro), was a Portuguese magistrate and heroic-comic poet, son of a Lisbon carpenter who emigrated to the Portuguese colony of Brazil shortly before the poet's birth, leaving his wife to support and educate her young family by the earnings of her needle.