Camilo Castelo Branco was the most celebrated Portuguese writer of his time and still occupies a central place in the Portuguese literary canon. The prestige in Europe of realist narratives as opposed to the Romantic mode in which Castelo Branco wrote,...

(born March 16, 1825, Lisbon, Port.—died June 1, 1890, Seide) Portuguese novelist. An orphan from a family with a tendency to insanity, he studied medicine and theology before beginning to write. While imprisoned for eloping with another man's...

Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo-Branco (pron. IPA: [kɐ'milu kɐʃ'tɛlu 'bɾɐ̃ku]) (1st Viscount de Correia Botelho) was a Portuguese writer born in Lisbon on March 16 1825, and who committed suicide on June 1...

Like the tango in Argentina or the blues in the United States, the fado began in Portugal as a disreputable music of the poor and working class but showed such staying power that it was eventually embraced by the establishment. That embrace proved more...

Dicen que el cuervo era blanco, Lo convirtió en negro el dios Apolo como castigo de alguna impropia mensajería. Dicen que el mirlo es siempre negro y por eso un mirlo blanco sería excepcional curiosidad o maravilla, Dicen, dicen... Ni hubo nunca cuervos...