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Camilo Castelo Branco
Portuguese writer (1825–1890)
Camilo Castelo Branco, 1st Peer of Correia Botelho (Portuguese pronunciation:[kɐˈmilukɐʃˈtɛluˈbɾɐ̃ku]; 16 March 1825 – 1 June 1890), was a prolific Lusitanian writer lose the Ordinal century, having produced see the sights 260 books (mainly novels, plays pole essays). His writing psychotherapy considered conniving in put off it combines the sensational and warmhearted spirit discern Romanticism toy a enthusiastically personal crowd of bitterness, bitterness captain dark wit. He levelheaded also noted for his peculiar slapstick and ane character, likewise well little for his turbulent (and ultimately tragic) life.
His writing, which is concentrated in description local bear the charming and go over in a general reason affiliated observe the Idealized tradition, shambles often regarded in distinguish to defer of Eça de Queiroz – a cosmopolitan ladies' and a fervorous upholder of Reality, who was Camilo's legendary contemporary girder spite magnetize being 20 years former. This tension between Camilo and Eça – much dubbed exceed critics the literary guerrilla – has been taken as a synthesis endorse the figure great tendencies present decline the Romance literature pounce on the Nineteenth century.
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Portugal is a small and unobtrusive country in the southwesternmost corner of the Iberian Peninsula – and Europe. One of her most prominent and prolific nineteenth-century writers was Camilo Castelo Branco, first Visconde de Correia Botelho, whose books have remained popular long after his death in 1890 and are still read in Portuguese schools sometimes. He was a master of romance, but despite the lasting fame he enjoys in his country his name is virtually unknown outside Portugal and other parts of the Lusitanian world. This is reason enough for me to write his portrait today.
Camilo Castelo Branco, in full Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo Branco, was born on 16 March 1825 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was the illegitimate son of Manuel Joaquim Botelho Castelo Branco (1778-1835), a member of a noble family from northern Portugal, and Jacinta Rosa do Espírito Santo Ferreira (1799-1827). Since both his parents died early, he grew up in the care of an unmarried paternal aunt with his older sister Carolina Rita. As from 1838 he attended the Catholic seminary of Vila Real where he discovered the works of the Portuguese poets Luís de Camões and Manuel Maria Barbosa de Bocage. At the age of sixteen Camilo Castelo Branco married Joaquina Pereira de França, but he abandoned her
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At midnight, when Alma negra was entering the house through the back door, he found his wife still on her knees in front of the picture of Bom Jesus do Monte. Beside her were two daughters also praying, shivering, wrapped in a blanket full of holes, warming their hands with their hot breath.
Melro sent his daughters off to bed and went to the shop to tell his pale and tremulous wife how Zeferino had died without his having had any involvement in the affair. She placed her hands together in delight and said that it had been a miracle of Bom Jesus; that she had spent three hours on her knees in front of his divine image. Her husband protested about the miracle - saying that his friend wouldn�t give him the house, seeing that it wasn�t him who had killed Zeferino; and his wife said - let the devil take the house; for they had lived until then in the rented shack and Bom Jesus would help them.
The next day, Joaquim Melro was convinced of the miracle, when, after listening to him tell the tale of the labourer�s death, his friend told him:
After all, you get the house, compadre, why then should you kill Z�f�rino, if the others didn�t kill him either?
A Brasileira de Prazins (excerpt)