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Luís De Montalvor
Luís de Montalvor (January 31, 1891 – March 2, 1947) was a pseudonym of Portuguese poet and editor Luís Filipe de Saldanha da Gama da Silva Ramos. He founded the reviews '' Orpheu'' (modern Portuguese spelling: ''Orfeu'') 'Orpheus''1914 and ''Centauro'' (''Centaur'') in 1916 and also worked in other reviews including '' Atlantida'' 'Atlantis''(1915–20), '' Contemporânea'' (1915–26) 'Contemporary'' ''Presença'' and '' Sudoeste'' in 1935. In 1933, he founded Editorial Ática, Lda. with its headquarters at a small ship at Rua das Chagas in Lisbon, in the early 1940s, he adopted the firm "Ática, S.A.R.L., Casa Editora" In 1942, he published for the publishing company Ática (Attica) on the collection of poems made by the renowned |
São Vicente, Cape Verde
São Vicente (Portuguese language, Portuguese for "Vincent of Saragossa, Saint Vincent") is one of the Barlavento Islands, the northern group within the Cape Verde archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, off the West Africa, West African coast. It is located between the islands of Santo Antão, Cape Verde, Santo Antão and Santa Luzia, Cape Verde, Santa Luzia, with the Canal de São Vicente separating it from Santo Antão. Geography The island is roughly rectangle, rectangular in shape with an area of . From east to west it measures and from north to south .Cabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Cape Verde), Instituto Nacional de Estatística The island, of volcano, volcanic origin, is fairly flat. The last volcanic activity is considered to have t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centauro (review)
''Centauro'' (Portuguese for "centaur") was a Portuguese monthly literary review published in the capital Lisbon from October to December 1916. The review was headed by Luís de Montalvor who also published its first volume. The first volume was published in October 1916, the second in November and the last one in December. Decadentism In some form, the ''Centauro'' review was republished as part of the review ''Orpheu'' (''Orpheus''), whose titled as a trimonthly literary review which had the recovering a then current decadentist, that Luís de Montalvor who headed the first issue of the review, it was printed. But the then current literary was diverted to the futurism, intersectionism and sensationism of Fernando Pessoa and Mário de Sá-Carneiro, especially on the second issue, in which it substituted the founded to head the ''Orpheus'' review. For its first issue of the ''Orpheu'' (also as ''Orféu''), de Montalvor wrote an "introduction", finding to make an aesthetic ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantida (Portuguese Magazine)
''Atlantida: mensário artístico, literário e social para Portugal e Brasil'' (''Atlantis: artistic, literary and social monthly for Portugal and Brazil'') was a magazine published in Portugal and Brazil from 1915 to 1920. The magazine was headed by and the journalist and playwright João do Rio, in order to foster the relationship between the two countries. These relationships between "sister nations" occupy a central theme of the magazine during World War I, portrayed as "a suitable moment to create ties between the two states, based on race, traditions and common history, and the notion of Latinity." They also sought to emphasize connections between Portuguese and Brazilian cultures. Collaborators included: * Augusto Casimiro, Guerra Junqueiro, Jaime Cortesão, José de Campos Pereira, José de Macedo and Teófilo Braga on what concerns the conflict between 1914 and 1918 * Agostinho de Campos, António Carneiro Leão, Barbosa de Magalhães, Delfim Santos, João de Barro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporânea
''Contemporânea'' (Portuguese for "Contemporary") was a Portuguese review magazine published in Lisbon from 1922 until 1926. It was headed by and had saved the graphic heading, it brought a literary direction secured for the main drafter Oliveira Mouta, which presented in 1915, attracted a number specimen, but only became viable in a part of May 1922 due to the support of the industrialist and collector Agostinho Fernandes (1886-1972), which later became the review's editor. The project had as the target of the titles ''In Contemporânea crystallized the modernism in the 1920s and you taste something mundane, its political tendency of the right''. Its publications totalled three numbers and the review turned it into a point of support by many "new" artists, which reprinted profusely. Its numerous contributors included: The review was associated with the artist school which styled Café A Brasileira and Bristol Club in Lisbon, and the Fall (Autumn) Salon at the National Soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Presença
''Presença - Folha de Arte e Crítica'' (lit. "Presence: A Journal of Art and Critique") was a Portuguese magazine published in Coimbra from 10 March 1927 until 1940, producing a total of 54 issues during its existence. History ''Presença'' was an influential magazine. João Gaspar Somões and Branquinho da Fonseca founded the magazine in 1927 and were its primary directors alongside José Régio. Branquinho da Fonseca left the magazine after the 27th issue in 1930 due to concerns about creative freedom, which was seen as a reaction to Régio's increasing involvement with the publication. Starting with the 27th edition, which was published in 1930, the magazine's leadership was split three ways with the addition of Adolfo Casais Monteiro in 1938. The following year, the magazine's format was revised and expanded to contain more pages. The magazine briefly had an additional editor, secretary Alberto de Serpa and published two more volumes, November 1939 and February 1940. ''Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudoeste (review)
''Sudoeste: cadernos de Almada Negreiros'' (Portuguese for "Southwest") was a Portuguese review published in Lisbon in 1935. The magazine was an attempt to continue the Geração de Orpheu, Orpheu movement. It was headed by Almada Negreiros (as suggested in the magazine's title), in collaboration with Dário Martins, which put their knowledge in different forms of direct interventionism, contacts and its influences to the publication of the periodical. Three issues were published between June and November 1935. The first issue reflected through its essays and text that forms the same theoretical presupposition: Life understood with a constructive union between the whole individuals. It also exacerbates having a value in creativity with an indispensable likeliness in all of the areas including arts and politics, condemning in a less objective form, which had mixed up the elements which annulled the potentials. Its third issue was relatively the first that it adopted the contri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Pessoa
Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa (; ; 13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, and publisher. He has been described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He also wrote in and translated from English and French. Pessoa was a prolific writer both in his own name and approximately seventy-five other names, of which three stand out: Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, and Ricardo Reis. He did not define these as ''pseudonyms'' because he felt that this did not capture their true independent intellectual life and instead called them ''heteronyms'', a term he invented. These imaginary figures sometimes held unpopular or extreme views. Early life Pessoa was born in Lisbon on 13 June 1888. When Pessoa was five, his father, Joaquim de Seabra Pessôa, died of tuberculosis, and less than seven months later his younger brother Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diogo De Macedo
Diogo de Macedo (Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, 22 November 1889 – Lisbon, Portugal, 19 February 1959) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese painter, sculptor, and writer. Biography His first master was the "imaginary sculptor" Fernando Caldas, whose workshop was next to Diogo de Macedo's house and from whom he learned the rudiments of drawing and modeling. In 1902, he enrolled in the Academia Portuense de Belas Artes but failed for "inattention to study" and thus interrupted his studies. However, he continued to attend the Escola Industrial Infante D. Henrique and in 1906 he returned to the Academy in 1905, being a student of Teixeira Lopes. He finished the course in 1911 and that same year left for Paris at his family's expense. He attended the Academies of Montparnasse, namely the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, where he was influenced by Bourdelle's classes; and attended for a few months, the National School of Fine Arts. Returns to Portugal in 1914; participates in sever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1891 Births
Events January * January 1 ** A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence. **Germany takes formal possession of its new African territories. * January 4 – The Earl of Zetland issues a declaration regarding the famine in the western counties of Ireland. * January 5 **The Australian shearers' strike, that leads indirectly to the foundation of the Australian Labor Party, begins. **A fight between the United States and Lakotas breaks out near Pine Ridge agency. **A fight between railway strikers and police breaks out at Motherwell, Scotland. * January 7 ** General Miles' forces surround the Lakota in the Pine Ridge Reservation. ** The Inter-American Monetary Commission meets in Washington DC. * January 9 – The great shoe strike in Rochester, New York is called off. * January 10 – in France, the Irish Nationalist leaders hold a conference at Boulogne. The French government promptly takes loan. * Jan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1947 Deaths
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Events January * January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in the 20th century causes extensive disruption of travel. Given the low ratio of private vehicle ownership at the time, it is mainly remembered in terms of its effects on the railway network. * January 1 – The ''Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946, Canadian Citizenship Act'' comes into effect, providing a Canadian citizenship separate from British law. * January 4 – First issue of weekly magazine ''Der Spiegel'' published in Hanover, Germany, edited by Rudolf Augstein. * January 10 – The United Nations adopts a resolution to take control of the free city of Trieste. * January 15 – Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actress nicknamed the "Black Dahlia", is found brutally murdered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles; the mysterious case is never solv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
