Santo Antônio do Rio Abaixo
edges of an auriferous river and the hillsides of small mounts, thus appeared Santo Antônio do Rio Abaixo . The expedition that established Santo Antônio do Rio Abaixo composed in Portuguese bandeirantes of the families: Quintão, Duarte, Alvarenga, Oliveira and Bittencourt. The bandeirantes
Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro
He was born to José Joaquim de Paiva Cabral Couceiro, a notable engineer in the Portuguese Army and Helena Isabel Teresa Mitchell, an Irish Protestant who converted to Catholicism (after being educated in a convent in France). Following her widowed father's death, the 20-year old Helena Mitchell
Os Lusíadas
fantastical interpretation of the Portuguese voyages of discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries. Os Lusíadas is often regarded as Portugal's national epic , much in the way as Virgil 's Aeneid was for the Ancient Romans , as well as Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey for the Ancient Greeks
