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Sebastião da Gama: The Poet of Arrábida
<p>When in 1924 a boy with the full name Sebastião Artur Cardoso da Gama was born in Vila Nogueira de Azeitão, no one could imagine that this child, whose life …
Teixeira de Pascoaes: The Mystic of Serra do Marão
<p>There is a place in Portugal where a man became a living legend. In the family manor house in São João de Gatão, near Amarante, a poet-philosopher spent decades in …
Júlio Dantas: The Man Who Divided Portuguese Literature
<p>Few Portuguese writers provoked such extreme reactions as Júlio Dantas. Adored by the public, translated into dozens of languages, occupant of the country's highest cultural positions – and simultaneously the …
Raul Brandão: The Visionary of Foz
<p>On the modest Rua da Bela Vista, next to the Atlantic that bathes Foz do Douro, a boy was born on March 12, 1867 who would become one of the …
Fialho de Almeida: An Uncomfortable Voice
<p>The year 1857 saw the birth, in Vila de Frades, of one of the most uncomfortable and talented voices of the transition between Monarchy and Republic.</p>
Camilo: Writing on the Edge
<p>In São Miguel de Seide, after the visit of ophthalmologist Edmundo Machado who confirmed his irreversible blindness, Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo Branco fired a shot at his own forehead. He …
Almeida Garrett: The Man Who Reinvented Portugal
<p>When João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett expired in Lisbon on December 9, 1854, at fifty-five years of age, Portugal lost its most complete nineteenth-century artist – poet, …
Ramalho Ortigão: A Life Between Letters and Travel
<p>When José Duarte Ramalho Ortigão died in 1915, at the age of 79, the journey of one of the most multifaceted figures of nineteenth-century Portuguese culture came to an end.</p>
Eça de Queirós: The Diplomat
<p>On August 16, 1900, in a Parisian residence, José Maria Eça de Queirós expired, leaving unfinished a literary revolution that would forever transform Portuguese letters. He was 54 years old …
The Rebellious Voice of Portuguese Poetry
<p>On a December afternoon in 1895, a child was born in Vila Viçosa who would grow to become one of the most singular voices in Portuguese literature. Baptized as Flor …
Herculano and Portuguese History
<p>When Alexandre Herculano's mortal remains were solemnly transferred to the Jerónimos Monastery in 1888, eleven years after his death, Portugal was bestowing upon a son of Lisbon's petty bourgeoisie an …