Alberto de Madureira

Poet. He was the director of Novos e Velhos, an illustrated fortnightly magazine of literature and art published in Braga in 1897, where he authored the column «Palestras Literárias» and which featured contributions from Abel Botelho, Alfredo Gallis, Amélia Janny, Antero de Figueiredo, Guiomar Torresão, Henrique Lopes de Mendonça, João Penha, Júlio Brandão, Júlio Dantas, Teixeira de Queirós, and Tomás Ribeiro, among others. He contributed to the newspaper A Correspondência do Norte (Braga), the magazine Brasil-Portugal, and the illustrated weekly Branco e Negro (Lisbon). He died «blind and penniless, accompanied by a few rare friends».