António Lúcio Magessi Tavares
António Lúcio Magessi Tavares[1] (30 April 1806 – 7 December 1877) was a Portuguese Army officer and political writer. Defender of the Miguelist cause during the Portuguese Civil War, he distinguished himself as a polemicist later in life.
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Biography
António Lúcio was born in Estremoz, the son of the Miguelist general António Tavares Magessi then stationed in the garrison of that town. He attended the Army School and started a military career in the cavalry, which he followed until he reached the rank of Captain.
Made a nobleman of the royal house by charter of July 6, 1825, he was one of the supporters of the legitimacy of Miguel I of Portugal, distinguishing himself, like his father, as one of the officers who opposed the Constitutional Charter of 1826 and who participated in several revolts that year.
He remained loyal to the legitimist cause during the Portuguese Civil War, and was one of the officers who only surrendered at the Concession of Evoramonte. He was then expelled from the Army together with other military men who supported Don Miguel, and began a career as a polemicist and writer.
Magessi Tavares was an assiduous collaborator of the Catholic and legitimist press, such as A Fé Católica (1861–1866), a bi-monthly newspaper directed by António Joaquim Ribeiro Gomes de Abreu. He was also a noted pamphleteer, writing in particular against liberal historian Alexandre Herculano.[2][3]
António Lúcio Magessi Tavares died in Castelo de Vide.
Works
- Breves Reflexões sobre Algumas Matérias Contidas nos Quatro Primeiros Volumes do Judeu Errante (1845)
- Demonstração dos Erros e Contradições Mais Notáveis da Obra de Eugenio Sue Intitulada «O Judeu Errante» (1845)
- Terceira e Ultima Parte da Analyse da Obra de Eugenio Sue Intitulada «O Judeu Errante» (1845)
- A Voz do Profeta, Respondida pela Voz da Verdade (1848)
- Demonstração Histórica e Documentada da Aparição de Cristo nos Campos de Ourique, contra a Opinião do Sr. A. Herculano (1846)
- Carta em Resposta a Outra do Sr. A. Herculano, que tem por Titulo «Solemnia verba» (1850)
- Nova Insistencia pela Conservação e Utilidade da Tradicção d'Ourique em Resposta ao Eu e o Clero do Sr. Alexandre Herculano, na Parte que tem Relação com este Objecto (1850)
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References
- Carvalhão Buescu, Ana Isabel (1987). O Milagre de Ourique e a História de Portugal de Alexandre Herculano: Uma Polémica Oitocentista. Lisboa: Instituto Nacional de Investigação Científica.
- Herculano, Alexandre (1850). Solemnia verba: Cartas ao Senhor A. L. Magessi Tavares sobre a Questão Actual entre a Verdade e uma Parte do Clero. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional.
- 1806 births
- 1877 deaths
- 19th-century Portuguese journalists
- 19th-century Portuguese male writers
- 19th-century Portuguese military personnel
- Miguelists
- Pamphlet writers
- People of the Liberal Wars
- Portuguese counter-revolutionaries
- Portuguese monarchists
- Portuguese people of Italian descent
- Portuguese political journalists
