Luís Augusto Rebelo da Silva
1822–1871
Biography
Luís Augusto Rebelo da Silva was a Portuguese journalist, historian, novelist and politician. He was born in Lisbon in April 1822 and died there in September 1871. He wrote for many newspapers and magazines, and he moved within the literary and political circles of Lisbon in the second half of the nineteenth century.
He taught history at the Curso Superior de Letras, a higher course in letters that King Pedro V founded in 1859, and he was one of its first teachers. He also held public office as a deputy, as a peer of the realm and as a minister. He is generally regarded as the most productive writer of Portuguese Romanticism. His son, Luís António Rebelo da Silva, a scientist and teacher of agronomy, later succeeded him in the Chamber of Peers.
He was a prolific writer, and his novels and histories came out alongside a great deal of journalism. The site holds his Contos e Lendas, whose title means Tales and Legends. Romantic writers of his generation often turned to the national past and to folk legend, so the book fits the taste of his time. The Portuguese article is the best place to see the full list of his works and his career.
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Books
Contos e Lendas
by Luís Augusto Rebelo da Silva
Four historical tales and legends by Rebelo da Silva: A Torre de Caim, O Castelo de Almourol, A Camisa do Noivado and a story of the last bullfight at Salvaterra. They tell of knights, monks and kings of Portugal's past in the romantic manner of the 1850s.
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