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João de Barros (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈɐ̃w dɨ ˈβaʁuʃ]; 1496 – 20 October 1570), nicknamed the "Portuguese Livy", [1] is one of the first great Portuguese historians, most famous for his Décadas da Ásia (Decades of Asia), a history of the Portuguese in India, Asia, and southeast Africa.
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.
João Aguiar (1943–2010); Manuel Alegre (born 1936), poet; Afonso de Albuquerque (1453–1515); Ana Filomena Amaral (born 1961), novelist; Ana Luísa Amaral (born 1956); Eugénio de Andrade pseudonym of José Fontinhas (1923–2005), poet
Logo Livraria Bertrand in Chiado, Lisbon. Livraria Bertrand is a Portuguese book retailer operating 59 branches nationwide, including 2 in Madeira.Founded in 1732, its original store in the Chiado neighborhood of Lisbon was declared to be the oldest operating bookstore in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2011. [1]
There are three livros de linhagens ('lineage books') from medieval Portugal: [1] Livro Velho de Linhagens (1286–1290), fragmentary; Livro de Linhagens do Deão (1343) Livro de Linhagens do Conde Dom Pedro (c. 1344)
Camilo was born out of wedlock and orphaned in infancy, [4] although his origins lay ultimately in Northern Portugal's provincial aristocracy (his father, Manuel Joaquim Botelho Castelo Branco, was the son of an illustrious household in the environs of Vila Real, but lived in near-poverty due to the strict law of primogeniture which then largely excluded younger sons from inheritance).
A saga das as-secas e das graças de nossenhor. Portugal: Publicações Europa-América, 1991. A tortura em nome do partido único: o PAICV e a sua polícia política: [depoimentos]. [S. Vicente, Cabo Verde]: Edições Terra Nova e Ponto & Vírgula, 1992. Contribuição para a construção da democracia em Cabo Verde, (Intervenções). Gráfica ...
José de Sousa Saramago GColSE GColCa (European Portuguese: [ʒuˈzɛ ðɨ ˈsozɐ sɐɾɐˈmaɣu]; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality."