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Laurentino Gomes in 2014. Cover of 1808 Cover of 1822. Laurentino Gomes (born 1956 in Maringá, Paraná) is a Brazilian journalist and writer.He is best known as the author of the trilogy of books that cover the history of Brazil and Portugal during the 19th century.
An early example of Portuguese literature is the tradition of a medieval Galician-Portuguese poetry, originally developed in Galicia and northern Portugal. [1] The literature of Portugal is distinguished by a wealth and variety of lyric poetry, which has characterized it from the beginning of its language, after the Roman occupation; by its ...
Livro do Armeiro-Mor, Arms of the King of Portugal (folio 10r) The Livro do Armeiro-Mor (Portuguese pronunciation: [li.vɾu du ɐɾˈmɐj.ɾu mɔɾ], Book of the Chief Armourer) is an illuminated manuscript dating back to 1509, during the reign of King Manuel I of Portugal. The codex is an armorial, a collection of heraldic arms, authored by ...
[1] The Lisbon Book Fair is one of the oldest cultural festivals held in the capital of Portugal . It was inaugurated in the 1930s, and its traditional location is the Eduardo VII Park (Parque Eduardo VII), the largest park of Lisbon, which is located in the vicinity of the monumental Praça Marques de Pombal.
The Archive of Contemporary Portuguese Culture (ACPC) is currently home to the collections of personal papers of 148 writers and other figures from the 19th and 20th centuries. Leading names include Fernando Pessoa , Eça de Queirós , Camilo Castelo Branco , Camilo Pessanha , Antero de Quental , Oliveira Martins, Jaime Cortesão, Raul Proença ...
The Livraria Lello & Irmão, commonly known in English as the Lello Bookshop, is a bookshop located in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the northern Portuguese municipality of Porto.
On 1 September 1939, at the start of World War II, the Portuguese Government announced that the 600-year-old Anglo-Portuguese Alliance remained intact, but that since the British did not seek Portuguese assistance, Portugal was free to remain neutral in the war and would do so.
The Book of Disquiet (Portuguese: Livro do Desassossego: Composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa) is a work by the Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935). Published posthumously, The Book of Disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a "factless ...