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PROCESSO e Julgamento de José Cardoso Vieira de Castro. Lisboa. 1870. - PROCESSO e Julgamento de José Cardoso Vieira de Castro . No Tribunal do 2.º Districto Criminal de Lisboa pella Accusação do Crime de Homicidio Voluntario na Pessoa de sua Mulher D. Claudina Adelaide Guiimarães Vieira de Castro. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1870. 148 pp., 1 est.: il.; 245 mm. Full transcript of the trial of José Cardoso Vieira de Castro (1837-1872), deputy, celebrated parliamentary orator and first biographer of Camilo Castelo Branco, about whom he wrote, in 1861, at the age of twenty-four, the work Camillo Castello-Branco (Noticia da sua Vida e Obras) , intended to vindicate his friend, then imprisoned on charges of adultery with Ana Plácido. Married since 1867 to the young Brazilian heiress D. Claudina Adelaide Guimarães, Vieira de Castro murdered her on May 9, 1870, at the couple's residence on Rua das Flores, in Lisbon, upon discovering her love affair with José Maria de Almeida Garrett, nephew of the poet Almeida Garrett, having premeditated the crime by acquiring chloroform and a mourning suit beforehand. The trial, defended by the celebrated lawyer Jayme Moniz before a large audience and public commotion, debated at length the argument of wounded conjugal honor as a mitigating circumstance, without this preventing Vieira de Castro's conviction to fifteen years of exile; he would die in Luanda two years later, in 1872. One of the most celebrated trials in nineteenth-century Portuguese judicial history, it captivated society at the time with divergent positions for and against the defendant, and is also linked, through the friendship between biographer and subject, to the personal circle of Camilo Castelo Branco. Rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate