Publisher's Synopsis
Dirceo's Marília - Tomás António Gonzaga
In Marília de Dirceo, Tomás António Gonzaga crafts a lyrical world of longing, devotion, and exile, a world where love is not merely an emotion but a philosophy, a destiny, and an enduring struggle against time and fate. Through the voice of Dirceo, a poet-lover who sings to his Marília, Gonzaga weaves a tapestry of pastoral beauty and melancholic depth, blending the classical with the deeply personal.
Written in the twilight of the Portuguese Enlightenment and against the backdrop of political upheaval, these verses pulse with an intimate yet universal yearning-a love that seeks permanence in a transient world, a poet's attempt to immortalize tenderness even as reality fractures beneath him. At once idyllic and sorrowful, Marília de Dirceo is a masterful meditation on passion, exile, and the poetic soul's resilience in the face of impermanence.
