Born in Compostela, parish of Requião, Vila Nova de Famalicão, on March 27, 1940, Virgílio Carneiro comes from a family of farmers, being the last of eight brothers. Professor D. Idalina Teles, retired at the time, was his tutor, under whose influence he came to structure his academic and professional training. He started at the primary school in his village, the general course of high schools at the Externato de Camilo Castelo Branco in Vila Nova de Famalicão and entered the Primary Teaching School in Braga in 1960. In Braga, while attending and completing the course, he did, as a self-taught, o Complementary Course of Lyceums (former 7th year). In the early 1960s, he enrolled at the Institute of Social Sciences in Lisbon; in 1965 he entered the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto but, due to incompatibility with a professor at the faculty, he headed to Coimbra for 3 years, to return to Porto, where he finished his degree in History with the presentation of a dissertation on Historical Demography, centered on in his native parish “Requião” in the 17th century. With Idioteque, he published Poética do Desassombro (2017), a poetry book that highlights its crystalline and natural poetry, which stands out for its sensitivity and the almost absence of artifices, authenticating it and differentiating it from many contemporary poetic works. As the author of the preface states, “his literary and teaching experience, in addition to a recognized career at a political and social level, endowed him with an indelible and unquestionable “sagesse”.