João Trindade Ferreira

Poet. He studied violin at the National Conservatory of Lisbon with Ivo Frederico da Cunha Silva but, due to circumstances beyond his control, ended up pursuing a commercial career. He collaborated with the magazine Vértice, where in 1956 he published «Duas Lições de Afonso Duarte», his friend and mentor who had led him to publish Sonetos e outras Poesias (1955) twenty years after it was written.