Camilo Castelo Branco was born in Lisbon on March 13th 1825 and died in São Miguel de Seide on June 1st 1890. He was the son of Manuel Joaquim Botelho Castelo Branco, lost his mother at the age of two and his father at the age of ten and was raised by his aunt from his father’s side, Rita Emília, in Vila Real.
