‘The Transformation Book’, which belongs to Pessoa’s pre-heteronymic period, contains a series of fragments written in English, Portuguese, and French, none of which were ever published during Pessoa’s lifetime. Conceived by Pessoa in 1908, a year of great social and cultural transformation in Portugal, The Transformation Book was designed to reflect and advance social and […]
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Book: ‘The Transformation Book’ or Book of Tasks – Editor’s Note
Posted on 19 February 2014.
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Travel: Lisbon Movie Tours launches guided visits – Portugal
Posted on 18 February 2014.
The film “Sostiene Pereira” directed by Roberto Faenza, with an award winning performance by Marcello Mastroianni, based in a novel by Italian author Antonio Tabuccchi, will be the first movie featured in the new “Lisbon Movie Tours” guided visits project. Designed by Liliana Navarra, an Italian resident in Lisbon, the project is based on films […]
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Community: Paulo Teves visiting California and Massachusetts – Azores
Posted on 18 February 2014.
The Regional Director for the Azorean Communities, Paulo Teves, will be visiting California and Massachusetts, February 20-25, in representation of the Government of the Azores. On the West Coast, February 21, Teves will meet with a group of students of Azorean descent in San Francisco to address the promoting the Azorean cultural heritage amongst the […]
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Community: President Cavaco Silva to visit the United States and Canada – Portugal
Posted on 17 February 2014.
The President of Portugal, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, will be visiting San Francisco in the United States and Toronto in Canada from February 25 through March 1. The President is accompanied by Vasco Cordeiro, President of the Government of the Azores, and Rui Machete, the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs. Traveling with the First Lady, Maria […]
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Israel: Portuguese citizenship granted to descendants of Sephardic Jews – Portugal
Posted on 17 February 2014.
Portuguese Under-Secretary of Tourism, Adolfo Mesquita Nunes, announced in Tell Aviv, Israel, that Portugal is granting citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews who were expelled from the country five centuries ago. The announcement follows a recent amendment to Portugal’s “Law on Nationality” that allows descendants of Jews who were expelled in the Portuguese Inquisition to […]
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Essay: The Whiskey is Strong, but the Cow is Dead – By George Monteiro
Posted on 15 February 2014.
By George Monteiro, Contributor (*) This talk was given 48 years ago, on March 23, 1966, at a Brown University Freshman Convocation. A relic or vestige, an artifact, if you will. It is published now, for the first time, at a moment when useful computer-generated search-engines pop up regularly, as well as, less happily, computer-created […]
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