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João de Andrade Corvo
writer · agronomist · scientist · politician
Portuguese writer and scientist who visited Madeira in 1853 to study the vine disease (mangra) and published memoirs on it for Madeira and Porto Santo, distinguishing four kinds of Malvasia. He was later a statesman, serving as a minister in Aguiar's government of 1867–68 and in the 1871 Fontes cabinet.
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- Moniz (Jaime Constantino de Freitas) — Fellow minister in the 1871 Fontes cabinet.
- Popular riots — Minister in Aguiar's government of 1867–68.
- Wines — Author of an 1855 memoir on vine disease in Madeira and Porto Santo.
- Malmsey — Portuguese writer and agronomist whose memoir on the 'mangra' in Madeira distinguished four kinds of Malvasia.
- Mangra of the vine — Agronomist, later a distinguished writer and statesman, sent by the government in 1853 to study the vine disease in Madeira and author of an 1854 report on it.
