Fernando Teles da Silva Caminha e Meneses, 3rd Marquis of Penalva
Fernando Teles da Silva Caminha e Meneses, 3rd Marquis of Penalva and 7th Count of Tarouca (9 June 1754 – 10 December 1818) was a Portuguese politician, gentleman of the chamber of Queen Maria I and John VI, military advisor and author. His major work Dissertation in Favor of the Monarchy (1799), republished during Salazarism by defenders of pure monarchy linked to the Estado Novo, was transformed into a paradigm of counter-revolutionary thought.
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Biography
Fernando Teles da Silva Caminha e Meneses was born in Lisbon, the son of Manuel Teles da Silva e Meneses e Castro (1727–1789) and Eugênia Mariana Josefa da Silva de Meneses da Silva (1731–1788). He entered a military life, and reached the rank of lieutenant general. The Marquis of Penalva was deputy at the Council of the Three Estates and censor at the Court of Appeal.[lower-alpha 1] He was also governor of the general captaincies of the provinces of São Paulo and Rio Grande in Brazil.
Fernando Teles da Silva Caminha e Meneses died in Lisbon.
Private life
He married Maria Rosa de Almeida, Marchioness of Penalva (1753–1783) and later Joana de Almeida (1767–1811). The Marquis had four daughters and two sons, Luís Teles da Silva Caminha e Meneses (1775–1828) and António Teles da Silva Caminha e Meneses (1790–1875).
Works
- Oração panegírica aos anos da Rainha nossa senhora, em nome da Academia Real da Historia, em 31 de março de 1776
- Dissertação a favor da Monarquia, onde se prova pela razão, autoridade e experiência ser este o melhor e mais justo de todos os governos, etc. (1799; 1818)[lower-alpha 2]
- Novena do Arcanjo S. Gabriel (1801)
- Novena do Apóstolo S. Pedro (1805)
- Carta de um vassalo nobre ao seu rei (1820)[lower-alpha 3]
- Elogio histórico do primeiro marquês de Ponte de Lima (unpublished)
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Footnotes
- ↑ The Desembargo do Paço, also called Mesa do Desembargo do Paço, literally the table for clearing away the affairs of the palace, was the supreme court of Portugal. The Marquis of Penalva wrote the judgment authorizing the publication of the newspaper Espectador Português by José Agostinho de Macedo. This document, notable for the violence with which free masons are attacked, was transcribed and largely documented in volume VIII of the Português, by João Bernardo da Rocha Loureiro.
- ↑ Republished in 1942 with an introductory essay by Caetano Beirão.[1]
- ↑ This letter, generally attributed to the marquis, appeared in manuscript and anonymously for a few years, finally appearing in Investigador Português, issue No. 36 (June 1814), p. 685, followed in that same number and immediately by two responses, also anonymous, in which the political conceptions of the aforementioned letter were challenged. The letter was published alongside the replies in 1820. Reprinted in 1945.[2]
Citations
References
- Campos, Fernando (1931). O Pensamento Contra-revolucionário em Portugal (século XIX). Lisboa: J. Fernandes Júnior.
- Castro Leal, Ernesto (2016). "The Political and Ideological Origins of the Estado Novo in Portugal," Portuguese Studies, Vol. XXXII, No. 2, pp. 128–48.
- Machado, Fernando Augusto (2000). Rousseau em Portugal: Da Clandestinidade Setecentista à Legalidade Vintista. Porto: Campo das Letras.
- Machado de Abreu, Luís (2001). "O Trono e o Altar no Discurso Anticlerical Português." In: Estudos em Homenagem a João Francisco Marques, Vol. 1. Porto: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, pp. 35–46.
- Marques da Costa, Fernando; Francisco Contente Domingues & Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro (1989). Do Antigo Regime ao Liberalismo, 1750-1850. Lisboa: Vega.
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- 1754 births
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- 18th-century Portuguese male writers
- 19th-century Portuguese male writers
- Catholicism and Freemasonry
- Commanders of the Order of Christ (Portugal)
- Margraves of Portugal
- Military personnel from Lisbon
- Portuguese counter-revolutionaries
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