page_title: Santa Rita Durão
hierarchical_section_title: Santa Rita Durão
caption_attribution_description: Santa Rita Durão
context_page_description: José de Santa Rita Durão, known simply as Santa Rita Durão, was a Colonial Brazilian Neoclassic poet, orator and Augustinian friar. He is considered a forerunner of "Indianism" in Brazilian literature, with his epic poem Caramuru.
  He is the correspondent patron of the 9th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
context_section_description: José de Santa Rita Durão (1722–1784), known simply as Santa Rita Durão, was a Colonial Brazilian Neoclassic poet, orator and Augustinian friar. He is considered a forerunner of "Indianism" in Brazilian literature, with his epic poem Caramuru.
  He is the correspondent patron of the 9th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
caption: A 1981 Brazilian stamp celebrating the 200 years of Caramuru's publication; a fictionalized depiction of Durão can be seen at the left, and Diogo Álvares Correia at the right
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