Branco (Alfredo de Castro de Freitas)
Alfredo de Castro de Freitas Branco, born in Funchal in 1890, was a writer and journalist whose works include plays, essays and studies on Madeiran folk medicine, Columbus and Os Lusíadas.
He was born in Funchal on 1 January 1890, the son of Luís de Freitas Branco and Dona Ana Augusta de Castro de Freitas Leal Branco. Besides various contributions to several newspapers, he has published:
- O Destino, 1916, 63 pp.
- Antiga Clara, 1916, 31 pp.
- No Exílio. Scenas da vida dos conspiradores monarchicos, 1917, 77 pp.
- Charcos, 1917, 46 pp.
- A acção do estado nas suas relações com a egreja catholica. Conferencia, 1917, 16 pp.
- Res Lusitanae, a translation, 1914
- Auto da Primavera, 1919, 22 pp.
- Madrinha de Guerra, 1919, 44 pp.
- A Confidencia, 1919
- A Flora Madeirense na Medicina Popular, 1935
- A Estada de Cristovam Colombo na Madeira, 1936; and Os Lusiadas e a Madeira.
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- Funchal
Birthplace of Branco.
The capital of the archipelago and seat of the principal captaincy, where settlement began; it was made a vila c.1451–52. Its bay, the widest in the archipelago, lies between Ponta do Garajau and Ponta da Cruz and offers sheltered anchorage, though its harbour had never been studied oceanographically. The Elucidário discusses it as a health resort with climate data and records the January 1906 disturbances, the Danish prince's visit in May 1846 and recent volcanic cones in the area.
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Funchal-born author of works including A Flora Madeirense na Medicina Popular (1935).
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Mother of Alfredo de Castro de Freitas Branco.
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Navigator whose stay in Madeira was the subject of an 1936 work by Branco.
- Luiz de Freitas Branco1819–1884
Father of Alfredo de Castro de Freitas Branco.