António Diniz da Cruz e Silva
António Diniz da Cruz e Silva ( 4 July 1731 in Lisbon5 October 1799 in Rio de Janeiro ) , was a Portuguese magistrate and heroic-comic poet , son of a Lisbon carpenter who emigrated to the Portuguese colony of Brazil shortly before the poet's birth , leaving his wife to support and educate her young family by the earnings of her needle . 
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