Fernando Pessoa (1888 – 1935) was born in Lisbon and is regarded today as the greatest Portuguese poet since Camoens. Pessoa died in 1935 leaving only one book of poems published in Portuguese under his own name. He wrote under a number of pseudonyms in several different styles: as Alvaro de Campos, Alberto Caeiro and Ricardo Reis. At the age of seven, Pessoa accompanied his mother to Durban where her second husband, Commander Joao Miguel Rosa had been posted as Portuguese Consul.