Francisco de Paula Ferreira da Costa
Francisco de Paula Ferreira da Costa (2 April 1788 – 31 December 1859) was a Portuguese bibliographer, numismatist[1] and memoirist.
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Biography
Ferreira da Costa was born in Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal, the son of Jorge Ferreira da Costa and Francisca Rosa. His literary and patriotic tastes were evident early on when he was one of the subscribers to the epic poem Brazilíada (1815), written by Tomás António dos Santos e Silva and accompanied by a laudatory epistle by José Maria da Costa e Silva.
He was a clerk at the Inspectorate of Barracks and Military Works and at the Board of the Crusade bull.
As a supporter of King Miguel, he left the capital in 1833 to join his army, which accompanied him to the Concession of Evoramonte. After this tragic event, he lived semi-hidden and on the services of private individuals.
A close friend of José Agostinho de Macedo, he had an almost complete collection of his writings, including unpublished works and correspondance.[2]
Francisco de Paula Ferreira da Costa died in Lisbon.
Works
- Memórias de um Miguelista (manuscript acquired at auction by the National Library; memoir of events since 24 July 1833; scholarly edition with foreword, transcription, spelling update and notes by João Palma-Ferreira)[3]
- Uma Memória acerca dos acontecimentos de Portugal desde 30 de Abril de 1824 até 24 de Julho de 1833 (lost manuscript, with previous events)
- Tractado genealógico do Reis de Portugal (ornamented with portraits, reproduced in the form of a 6-spans-high family tree, and reduced by the author in the Palace of Queluz)
- Traducção da Ilíada de Homero (translation of Homer's Iliad from book IX onwards, based on a Spanish version, in 3 volumes)
He published the following booklets in the press:
- A Recepção de Hum Maçon (1827; farce)
- Candido Altamirano, Exposição genuína da Constituição de 1826, na qual do mesmo texto se justificam e se desfazem as apparentes contradições e barbarismos que n'ela se contém (1828; translated from Spanish)
- Carta dirigida ao sábio auctor da Contramina, que pode servir de supplemento do n.º 47 da mesma (1832)
- "Descripção da Torre de Beja", Panorama, No. 52 (1842)
The extracts from the "Seções da Corte" (Court Sections), which were printed in the Government Gazette from 1 February to 29 August 1821, were also his.
Notes
- ↑ Lopes Fernandes, Manuel Bernardo (1861). Memoria das medalhas e condecorações portuguezas e das estrangeiras com relação a Portugal. Lisboa: Typ. da mesma Academia.
- ↑ Silva, Inocêncio Francisco da (1899). Memorias para a vida intima de José Agostinho de Macedo. Lisboa: Typ. da Academia Real das Sciencias.
- ↑ Costa, Francisco de Paula Ferreira da (1982). Memórias de um Miguelista, 1833-1884. Lisboa: Ed. Presença.
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- 1788 births
- 1859 deaths
- 19th-century Portuguese civil servants
- 19th-century Portuguese male writers
- 19th-century Portuguese translators
- Miguelists
- Portuguese counter-revolutionaries
- Portuguese genealogists
- Portuguese memoirists
- Portuguese numismatists
- Spanish–Portuguese translators
- Translators of Homer
- Writers from Lisbon
