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COELHO (F.J. Pinto). D. FERNANDO II de Portugal: Contemporaneos Illustres, II. Lisboa. 1878. - COELHO (F.J. Pinto) D. FERNANDO II de Portugal: Contemporaneos Illustres, II . Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1878. 384 pp., 1 ret.: il.; 210 mm. The second volume in the ”Illustrious Contemporaries” series, published by Imprensa Nacional and illustrated with a photographic portrait of the subject. This is a biography of King Ferdinand II of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1816-1885), published during his lifetime, seven years before his death. A German prince, married in 1836 to Queen Maria II, of whom he was king consort until her death in 1853, Ferdinand later assumed the regency during the minority of King Pedro V and became a central figure in 19th-century Portuguese artistic patronage, being primarily responsible for transforming the Pena Palace in Sintra into one of the greatest monuments of European Romanticism. Interesting. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate