caption movement death_date death_place birth_name birth_place subject imagesize nationality notableworks birth_date genre image article_title name occupation alma_mater
a drawing depicting durão neoclassicism 1784 1722 y lisbon , portugal josé de santa rita durão mariana , brazil indianism 200px portuguese '' caramuru '' 1722 epic poetry jose-santa-rita-durao . jpg santa rita durão
 santa rita durão orator , poet , priest university of coimbra
santa rita durão

josé de santa rita durão -lrb- 1722 -- 1784 -rrb- was a colonial brazilian neoclassic poet , orator and augustinian friar .
he is considered a forerunner of `` indianism '' in brazilian literature , with his epic poem `` caramuru '' .
he is the correspondent patron of the 9th chair of the brazilian academy of letters .
