Joze Basilio Da Gama, a Brazilian poet, born in 1740, died in Lisbon, July 31, 1795. He was brought up as a member of the society of Jesus, but left it, and went to Lisbon and to Rome, where he was for a time professor in a seminary. Owing to his former affiliation with the Jesuits, he was banished after his return to Brazil. At Lisbon he found a protector in Pombal, who after the publication of his poem V Uruguay, describing the overthrow of the Jesuit missions (1709), gave him a place in the state department, and in 1771 he was raised to the nobility. He translated parts of Metas-tasio and Goldoni, published poems, and became a member of the academy of Lisbon.