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The rotation of constitutional parties. – The reign of Peter V (1853-1861) was a period of pacification, of improvements in public services, of progress in education. A concordat was concluded with the Holy See for the Portuguese patronage of the East (1857), a question then definitively settled in 1886. Peace […]
LANGUAGE The Portuguese can be divided into three basic groups: a continental group, typical of the northern linguistic variations and other own area of south-central Portugal; an island group (Azores and Madeira); an overseas group, made up of all the varieties spoken in Brazil, Asia and Africa. The Galician language […]
It is not difficult to detect in Portuguese literature, through its history of eight centuries, some essential characters: 1. Predomination of lyricism, understood as a preference for the love life and for the passionate and personal problems of the artist. This lyricism, which was born immediately in the century. XII, […]
From the beginning of the 20th century to the 1980s According to indexdotcom, the generation linked to the Orpheu magazine (1915) marks the conclusion of the symbolist experience and the beginning of modernism, represented by F. Pessoa, M. de Sá-Carneiro and J. de Almada Negreiros. With the group linked to the magazine Presença (1927), […]
From the origins to the 18th century The origins of Lusitanian literature date back to the 12th century, with a lyrical flowering in the Galician-Portuguese language and largely of Provençal derivation which, from the time of King Sancho I, reached the middle of the 14th century. but capable of producing, […]
According to ehotelat, the Italianizing influence which was accentuated above all after the trip of Sá de Miranda (1485-1558) to Italy, in 1526, and the influence of the sea, which took place especially during the reigns of John II and Emmanuel I, under the mirage of India, are the components […]
Among the literatures created by small peoples, Portuguese is one of those that hold strong human values, because it reflects a national history of great dramatic interest: the persistence, that is, of a small nation, which has tenaciously resisted the Iberian encirclement and which, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, […]
If the sec. XVI is the most original of Portuguese literary history and is the one that frames the elaboration of the great national epic, if the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have a great variety of genres and a great bookish fertility, the sec. XIX is the Portuguese golden century […]
Although agriculture is the main occupation of the Portuguese people (50% of the residents are dedicated to it), yet this still does not occupy the place it should have; this is due both to the climatic conditions (rainfall in general abundant, but unevenly distributed), and to the nature of the […]