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GALVÃO (Lourenço Anastasio Mexia). VIDA do Famoso Heróe Luiz de Loureiro. Porto. 1946. - GALVÃO (Lourenço Anastasio Mexia) VIDA do Famoso Heróe Luiz de Loureiro . Reimpressão conforme a 1.ª edição, de 1782, com uma Introdução de M. Lopes de Almeida. Porto: Portucalense Editora, 1946. 196 pp.; 210 mm. Reprint, with an introduction by M. Lopes de Almeida, of the first edition of 1782 of this biography of Luís de Loureiro (c. 1490 - Tangier, 1553), a Portuguese captain who served for more than forty years in the Portuguese strongholds of Morocco. Commander of São Tomé de Penela in the Order of Christ and advisor to King John III, Loureiro successively held the positions of chief adail of the kingdom and captain and governor of Safim, Santa Cruz do Cabo de Gué, Mazagão, and also Arzila and Tangier, strongholds which he was responsible for defending or evacuating in the final and most dramatic phases of the Portuguese presence in Morocco. Written by Lourenço Anastácio Mexia Galvão and offered to Queen Maria I, this work, apart from a brief essay by Afonso de Dornelas, constitutes the only biography dedicated to this figure, an indispensable source for the history of the Portuguese strongholds in Morocco during the reign of King John III. Esteemed. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate