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José Basílio da Gama (April 10, – July 31, ) was a colonial Brazilian poet and member of the Society of Jesus, famous for the epic poem O Uraguai.

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He wrote under the pen name Termindo Sipílio.^[1]

He is patron of the 4th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.^[2]

Biography

José Basílio da Gama was born in , in the city of São José do Rio das Mortes (whose name was later changed to Tiradentes), in Minas Gerais, to Manuel da Costa Villas-Boas and Quitéria Inácia da Gama.

The death of his father, when he was a young child, caused a hard situation in his life. During this period, a brigadier named Alpoim who served as his protector sent him to Rio de Janeiro, where he studied at Jesuit College, starting his novitiate for the Society of Jesus.

With the expulsion of the Jesuits in , Basílio went to Europe, where he travelled through many countries, such as Italy and Portugal, between and In Italy, he ingressed at the Roman Arcadia, where