by Almeida Garrett · Verbo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789725683620
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«Romanceiro» is Almeida Garrett's collection of Portuguese romances and ballads, published by Verbo in paperback (441 pages, in Portuguese).
A collection of Portuguese romances and ballads that Almeida Garrett brought together to preserve and popularise the country's early literature and oral traditions. He conceived the work as a popular, not scholarly, book that would bring these ancient texts closer to the public and offer new writers the authentic traits of Portuguese nationality.
Originally published in three volumes between 1843 and 1851; this edition dates from 1997.
For readers interested in poetry, Portuguese literature and traditional culture, and for those studying Lusitanian folklore.
João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, 1st Viscount of Almeida Garrett was a Portuguese poet, orator, playwright, novelist, journalist, politician, and a peer of the realm. A major promoter of theater in Portugal he is considered the greatest figure of Portuguese Romanticism and a true revolutionary and humanist. He proposed the construction of the D. Maria II National Theatre and the creation of the Conservatory of Dramatic Art.
