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ORTIGÃO (Ramalho). O CONDE de Ficalho (Retrato Intimo). Lisboa. 1919. - ORTIGÃO (Ramalho) O CONDE de Ficalho (Retrato Intimo) . Lisboa: [s.n.], 1919. 34 pp.; 210 mm. A small pamphlet, published posthumously separately and originally included in the pages of the periodical Tradição . The text is a memoir of the Count of Ficalho, Francisco Manuel de Melo Breyner (Serpa, 1837 - Lisbon, 1903), botanist, diplomat, novelist and one of the founders of the Lisbon Botanical Garden - a companion of Ortigão in the group of the Vencidos da Vida (Defeated of Life), the circle of intellectuals and aristocrats that, in the last decade of the 19th century, regularly brought together in Lisbon figures such as Eça de Queirós, Oliveira Martins, Guerra Junqueiro and Antero de Quental. Unusual. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate