Pátria

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In Abílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro
…pride in a dramatic poem Pátria (1896), which blamed the Braganza dynasty and delusions of a glorious national past for the country’s downfall. The poem’s popularity was immense and, when the republic was established in 1910, Guerra Junqueiro, as a revolutionary hero, was appointed envoy to Bern. In his last…
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