Canidia (gens) Canidia (gens) The gens Canidia was a Roman family of the late Republic. It is best known from a single individual, Publius Canidius Crassus, consul "suffectus" in 40 B.C., and the chief general of Marcus Antonius. "Canidia" was also a sobriquet bestowed upon Gratidia, a Neapolitan perfumer (according to Pomponius Porphyrion) who had deserted the poet Horace. He primarily describes her in his fifth and seventeenth epodes, and the eighth satire of his first book of Satires; she is mentioned in passing at Epode 5, Satire 2.1 and Satire 2.8. The "Palinodia" in the sixteenth ode of the first book
Carmen Dolores Carmen Dolores Emília Moncorvo Bandeira de Melo (1852–1910) was a Brazilian poet and play-writer who commonly wrote under the pseudonym Carmen Dolores. Other pseudonyms she used were Júlia de Castro, Leonel Sampaio, Célia Márcia, and Mário Villar. She was best known for publishing short stories, novels, plays, literacy criticism, and journalistic essays or "crônicas." Emília Moncorvo de Figueiredo was born on March 11, 1852 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Dr. Carlos Honório de Figueiredo and D. Emília Moncorvo de Figueiredo. Raised by a traditional upper-class family, she received an education and initially, began writing as a hobby. She married