Nascimento (João Cabral do)
Biographical entry on João Cabral do Nascimento (born Funchal, 1897), poet, lawyer and first director of the Madeira District Archive, who founded the review «Arquivo Histórico da Madeira».
He was born in Funchal on 22 March 1897, the son of João Crawford do Nascimento and Dona Palmira Cabral do Nascimento. He attended the lyceum (state secondary school) of this city and in 1922 completed his law degree at the University of Coimbra (Universidade de Coimbra). From an early age he showed a decided inclination for letters, making his name above all as a poet. He published the verse pamphlets As tres Princesas mortas num Palácio em ruína, 1916, Além-Mar, 1917, and Hora de Noa, 1917. He has contributed to various newspapers and reviews and was an editor of the Restauração of Coimbra (1921). When the District Archive was created in 1931, Dr Cabral do Nascimento was appointed its first director. He promptly launched the review Arquivo Histórico da Madeira (‘Historical Archive of Madeira’), of which he has been the principal contributor and of which six volumes have already appeared.
In addition to the works mentioned above, he has published in verse Alguns Sonetos, 1924, Descaminho, 1926, Arrabalde, 1928, and Cancioneiro, 1943, and in prose the following writings: Documentos para a história das Capitanias da Madeira, 1930, Genealogia da Familia Medina da Ilha da Madeira, 1930, and Apontamentos de História Insular, 1927.
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The poet João Cabral do Nascimento was born in Funchal.
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João Cabral do Nascimento was an editor of the Coimbra newspaper Restauração.
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João Cabral do Nascimento completed his law degree at the University of Coimbra.
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The Madeira District Archive (Arquivo Histórico da Madeira) was created, with João Cabral do Nascimento as its first director.
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- Coimbra
Portugal. Seat of the university where he graduated in law and of the newspaper Restauração he edited.
Portuguese mainland university city where many Madeirans studied law or medicine, and where Padre Luís Gonçalves da Câmara taught and was rector of the Jesuit college. It hosted the 1921 academic table-tennis championship, and its dormancy and rainfall data are compared with Funchal's.
- Funchal
Birthplace of João Cabral do Nascimento, where he attended the lyceum.
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.
People
People mentioned · 03- D. Frei João do Nascimento1897–1753
Funchal-born poet and historian, law graduate of Coimbra (1922) and first director of the Madeira District Archive from 1931.
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Father of the poet and archivist João Cabral do Nascimento.
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Mother of the poet and archivist João Cabral do Nascimento.