Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage

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Español: Manuel María Barbosa du Bocage (Setúbal, Portugal, 1765–1805), poeta portugués.
Português: Manuel Maria de Barbosa l´Hedois Du Bocage (Setúbal, 1765 – Lisboa, 1805), poeta português e, possivelmente, o maior representante do arcadismo lusitano. Embora ícone deste movimento literário, é uma figura inserida num período de transição do estilo clássico para o estilo romântico que terá forte presença na literatura portuguesa do século XIX.
English: Manuel Maria Barbosa de Bocage (1765–1805), Portuguese poet, was a native of Setubal. His father had held important judicial and administrative appointments, and his mother, from whom he took his last surname, was the daughter of a Portuguese vice-admiral of French birth who had fought at the Battle of Matapan.