Ricardo Reis (heteronym)

In his fictional biography, Reis was born in Porto in 1887, one year younger than Fernando Pessoa, who describes him as very little shorter and stronger, but slim and a vague matte brown.

Politically a monarchist, he went into exile to Brazil after the defeat of a monarchical rebellion in Porto against the Portuguese Republic in 1919.

[1] Reis Odes were first published in 1924 in the Athena: Revista de Arte [pt], founded by Fernando Pessoa and Ruy Vaz.

[2] In a letter to William Bentley, director of the journal Portugal, on October 31, 1924, to announce his journal Athena, Pessoa wrote that "a knowledge of the language would be indispensable, for instance, to appraise the 'Odes' of Ricardo Reis, whose Portuguese would draw upon him the blessing of António Vieira, as his stile and diction that of Horace (he has been called, admirably I believe, 'a Greek Horace who writes in Portuguese')".

[3] Since Pessoa didn't determine the death of Reis, one can assume that he survived his author who died on November 30, 1935.