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RIVARA (J. H. da Cunha). MEMÓRIAS Biográficas de Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara. Coimbra. 1929. - RIVARA (J. H. da Cunha) MEMÓRIAS Biográficas de Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara . Anotadas e Seguidas da Bibliografia do Padroado Português no Oriente por Álvaro Neves. Coimbra: Impresa da Universidade, 1929. 244 pp., 1 ret.: il.; 240 mm. A biographical memoir dedicated to Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara, a major figure in Portuguese scholarship on the Portuguese presence in India and a driving force behind studies of the Konkani language, annotated and followed by a bibliography of the Portuguese Patronage in the East, authored by Álvaro Neves. This work brings together the biographical data of Rivara, librarian of the Public Library of Évora and, for more than twenty years, secretary-general of the government of Goa, and compiles, in its bibliographical appendix, the fundamental sources for the study of the Portuguese Patronage in the East, a subject to which the subject dedicated a significant part of his editorial work, notably through the Portuguese Oriental Archive . Illustrated with a portrait of the subject. A highly regarded reference work for the history of the Padroado and Portuguese Orientalist scholarship of the 19th century. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate