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Ângelo Pinto Ribeiro was born on 7 January 1886 in Rua da Alfândega, in the parish of Sé in Angra do Heroísmo in the Azores. He was the legitimate son of Jácome de Sousa Ribeiro, a well-known Azorean musician and journalist, and Maria Leonor Pinto and grew up in a deeply Catholic music-loving family which had connections to the press and the world of publishing. Ângelo Ribeiro spent part of his childhood in Angra do Heroísmo. However, in 1899 his father took up a post as secretary to the Municipal Council of Calheta and so moved with his family, including Ângelo, to the island of São Jorge.
Between 9 January and 30 September 1911, Ribeiro, then 25 years old, held the position of administrator of the Concelho (County) of Praia da Vitória, which clearly reflects his republican ideology. Shortly after leaving this job, he became administrator of the Concelho of Angra do Heroísmo, a post he occupied until 29 April 1912. At the same time during this period, he attended the Complementary Course in Letters at the Liceu Central (secondary school) in Ponta Delgada. He completed the course, having followed the German language variant of the curriculum, on 4 July 1912 finishing with a final grade of 12 out of 20. In the same year he set out for Lisbon with the idea of enrolling in the recently established Faculty of Letters, a desire that he fulfilled on 9 October of that year. In October 1917 he gained his bacharel in the Philosophy section. In February 1918 he was admitted to the Escola Normal Superior of Lisbon to take the Curso de Habilitação ao Magistério Liceal (a teacher training course for secondary school teachers) where he studied pedagogical practice and became a trainee teacher at the Liceu de Gil Vicente.
While he was still studying for his bachelor’s degree, owing to financial difficulties Ribeiro began to work as a journalist on various daily newspapers in the capital such as As Novidades, producing invaluable studies on literary figures. From 1919 on, we can find documents relating to his friendship with Leonardo Coimbra and linking him to the Renascença Portuguesa (Portuguese Renaissance) movement. In the same year, Ribeiro published some articles in the magazine Atlântida: Mensário Artístico, Literário e Social para Portugal e Brasil. In the post-World War I period, he devoted himself to translating and publishing several works by Plato under the auspices of the Portuguese Renaissance movement and to editing works of poetry.
