Ramalho Ortigão

José Duarte Ramalho Ortigão (Portuguese pronunciation:  [ʒu

Ramalho Ortigão
ˈzɛ ˈdwaɾtɨ ʁɐˈmaʎu oɾtiˈɡɐ̃w]) (24 October 1836 – 27
September 1915) was a Portuguese writer of the late 19th
century and early 20th century.

Contents
Biography
Works
References
External links

Biography
Ortigão spent his early years with his maternal grandmother in
Porto. He studied law in the University of Coimbra but he did Born José Duarte Ramalho
not complete his studies. After returning to his home town, he Ortigão
taught French at a college run by his father. Among his 24 October 1836
students was Eça de Queiroz. Porto, Portugal
Died 27 September 1915
In 1862 he dedicated himself to journalism and became a
(aged 78)
literary critic at the Diário do Porto and contributed to several
Lisbon, Portugal
literary magazines.
Occupation Writer
At this period Romanticism was the dominant trend in Literary Romanticism
Portuguese literature, led by several major writers including movement
Camilo Castelo Branco and António Augusto Soares de Notable O Mistério da Estrada de
Passos, who influenced Ortigão. In the 1870s, a group of works Sintra, As Farpas
students from Coimbra began to promote new ideas in a
Signature
reaction against romanticism. This group, eventually called the
70s Generation, was to have a major influence on Portuguese
literature. As a supporter of romanticism, Ortigão became
involved in a struggle against them and even fought a duel
with Antero de Quental. In spite of this early opposition he afterwards became friendly with some members
of the group. It was at this period that he wrote The Mystery of the Sintra Road and created the satirical
journal As Farpas, both in collaboration with Eça de Queiroz. When Queiroz became a diplomat, initially
in Cuba, Ortigão continued As Farpas alone.

Ortigão also worked as a translator. In 1874 he produced a Portuguese translation of the English satirical
novel Ginx's Baby by Edward Jenkins.

Ramalho Ortigão died in Lisbon on 27 September 1915.

Works
Literatura de Hoje (1866).
Em Paris (1868).
Contos Côr de Rosa (1869).
O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra (1870).
Biographia de Emilia Adelaide Pimentel (1871).
As Farpas (with Eça de Queirós, 1871–72).
As Farpas (http://purl.pt/256) (1871–1882).
Banhos de Caldas e Águas Minerais (1875).
As Praias de Portugal (1876).
Notas de Viagem (1878).
A Instrucção Secundária na Câmara dos Senhores
Deputados (1883).
A Holanda (1883).
John Bull (1887).
O Culto da Arte em Portugal (http://purl.pt/207) (1896). Sculpture of Ramalho Ortigão in the
Últimas Farpas (http://purl.pt/225) (1914). Cordoaria Garden, Porto.

Posthumous

As Farpas Esquecidas (1946–47).

Translations

Hygiene da Alma, by Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben (1873).

Ginx's Baby, o Engeitado: seu Nascimento e Mais Desastres, by Edward Jenkins (1874).
O Marquez de Villemer, by George Sand (1905).

References
Arantes, Hemetério (1915). Ramalho Ortigão. (https://archive.org/stream/ramalhoortigo00ara
n#page/n7/mode/2up) Lisboa: Livraria Ferreira.
Fonseca, Francisco Fernandes Guimarães (1866). A Litteratura Ramalhuda; A Propósito
dos Senhores Castilho, e Ramalho Ortigão. (https://archive.org/stream/litteraturaramal00ifgg
#page/n5/mode/2up) Coimbra: Imprensa Litteraria.
Oliveira, Maria João L. Ortigão de (1999). O Essencial sobre Ramalho Ortigão. Lisboa:
INCM.
Quintas, José Manuel (1997). O Integralismo Lusitano e a herança de "Os Vencidos da
Vida". (https://web.archive.org/web/20130503230443/http://www.angelfire.com/pq/unica/il_j
mq_filhos_de_ramires.htm) Sintra: Academia da Força Aérea.

External links
Works by Ramalho Ortigão (https://www.gutenberg.org/author/Ortigão,+José+Duarte+Ramal
ho) at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Ramalho Ortigão (https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%28subjec
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Internet Archive
Work by Ramalho Ortigão (https://web.archive.org/web/20051019184635/http://purl.pt/index/
PT/autor/31891.html)

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