Angelina Vidal, a trade unionist left to starve in Lisbon
A poet, journalist and teacher, she challenged Cesário Verde to a duel and founded A Voz do Operário. Angelina Vidal (1853–1917) demanded justice for working women — and justice left her to starve.
The fairy who came from Berlin to become the first teacher in Co...
Highly gifted, a protégé of the Grimm brothers, she fell in love with her husband by letter and swapped Prussia for the land of Camões. Carolina Michaëlis was considered the wisest woman in Portugal, but she was as likely to write a grammar as to cook s...
Nuno Alvares Pereira 24/6/1360 - 1/11/1431
Home Curiosity Nuno Alvares Pereira 24/6/1360 - 1/11/1431 Nuno Alvares Pereira 24/6/1360 - 1/11/1431 Nuno Alvares was born to unmarried parents and descended from Portuguese and Galician nobility.
