Roberto Barreto Pedroso das Neves

Portuguese-born Brazilian writer, journalist, poet, historian, Freemason, Esperantist, graphologist, anarchist individualist, vegetarian and naturist, born. Having worked on the anarchist journals 'A Batalha' and 'O Libertario', and been persecuted by the Salazar police (13 arrests), he left Portugal in 1942 for Brazil. There he founded and led the Editora Germinal (Editions Germinal), which published anarchist books, and collaborated on the anarchist publications 'Relações Anarquistas', 'Acção Directa' and 'A Plebe'.

His works include the poetry collection 'Assim Cantava um Cidadão do Mundo - poemas que levaram o autor treze vezes aos cárceres do Santo Oficio de Salazar' (Just One Song of a World Citizen - poems that led the author thirteen times the prisons of Salazar's Inquisition; 1952) and the anti-religion polemic 'O Diário do Dr. Satã. Comentários subversivos às escorrências cotidianas da sifilização cristã' (The diary of Dr. Satan. Subversive comments on the daily seepage of christian syphilisation; 1954) [NB Satã was the name das Neves used when he joined the Masons].

Roberto Barreto Pedroso das Neves died on September 28, 1981 in Rio de Janeiro.