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Aquilino Ribeiro makes his debut at age 23 in the magazine “Serões” with a text about the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Remedies in Lamego, featuring the grand church, monumental staircase, fountains, grottoes, and landscape.
The manuscript contains a different version of a poem by Camões and previously unpublished testimonies. The State will allow any interested reader to consult it, either in person or digitally.
The Real Gabinete Português de Leitura today received the insignia of the Order of Camões from the Portuguese state. The institution, nearly 200 years old, was 'created by the Portuguese and offered to Brazilians'.
A nearly 200-year-old library in Rio de Janeiro is the second institution outside Portugal to receive the decoration. It holds 350,000 volumes and a first edition of Os Lusíadas from 1572.
