Vasconcelos e Sá (João Augusto de)
Funchal-born poet (b. 1880), author of the song 'Margarida vai à fonte', and former cavalry officer deported to Madeira after the Monsanto rising.
He was born in this city on 9 July 1880, when his father was in command of the artillery battery quartered at São Tiago; he was the son of Luís Augusto de Vasconcelos e Sá, then a captain, and Dona Maria Algeraz de Vasconcelos e Sá. He is one of the most admired contemporary poets and the author of the verse collections Um livro and Rimas pobres. He wrote the celebrated song Margarida vai á fonte, which enjoyed extraordinary success.
João Augusto de Vasconcelos e Sá, a former cavalry officer, was one of the 289 political deportees who, after the Monsanto rising (Jornada de Monsanto), were held in the Lazareto de Gonçalo Aires (‘Gonçalo Aires quarantine hospital’) in Funchal (vol. I, p. 350).
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- Fortress of São Tiago
Funchal. Where the artillery battery commanded by the poet's father was quartered.
A fortress on the Funchal waterfront at the eastern end of the landing shore, dated 1614 during Spanish rule and rebuilt in 1767; it later housed a mountain artillery battery. Prisoners were held there in 1823 and 1828, the Republican flag was raised there on 7 October, and it fired during the 1916 bombardment of Funchal.
- Lazareto de Gonçalo Aires
Funchal. Where political deportees including the poet were held.
The Lazareto de Gonçalo Aires is a quarantine building at the mouth of the Ribeira de Gonçalo Aires, decreed in 1849. It was turned into a plague isolation hospital and sacked by rioters on 7 January 1906. It was later used to intern political deportees, including those of 1919, and German residents during the Great War.
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Funchal-born poet and ex-cavalry officer, held in the Gonçalo Aires lazaretto after the Monsanto rising.
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Artillery captain commanding the São Tiago battery; father of the poet.
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Mother of the poet.