Abstract
In the epigraphs that accompany some of the poems of Crisálidas (1864), by Machado de Assis, there are names of authors like Dante, Camões, Heine and Homer. The same happens in the next two books of poems published by the author, Falenas (1870) and Americanas (1875). The choice of these names reveals the authors of Machado's library that accompanied him throughout your career and influenc…