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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

João Baptista Gomes (1775?–1803)

Gomes, João Baptista (gō’mes). A Portuguese dramatist; born in Oporto about 1775; died there (?), Dec. 20, 1803. While employed in a mercantile house he wrote in his early twenties a tragedy, ‘The New Castro,’ on the love of Dom Pedro for Inez de Castro, which was staged in Lisbon about 1800 and was highly successful.